Mark Donskoy

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1901–1981)

0.47body-of-work score · ranked #1431 of 2640 directors · 2 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
March 6, 1901 · Odesa
Died
March 21, 1981 · Moscow
Nationality
Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
Directing career
20 directorial credits, 1930–1978 · first: Strange Shore (1930) · last: The Orlovs (1978)
Work
film director, screenwriter, actor, director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Mark Donskoy
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Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    At Great CostДорогой ценой

    1957 · Soviet Union · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1961 #6

    0.361 citation
  2. 2
    The Childhood of Maxim GorkyДетство Горького

    1938 · Soviet Union · biography, drama

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 20 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1930Strange Shore
  • 1938The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
  • 1939Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship
  • 1940My universities
  • 1941The Romantics
  • 1942How the Steel Was Tempered
  • 1942Боевой киносборник № 9
  • 1943Rainbow
  • 1945The Unvanquished
  • 1947The Village Teacher
  • 1950Alitet Leaves for the Hills
  • 1956Mother
  • 1957At Great Cost
  • 1959Foma Gordeyev
  • 1962Hello, Children!
  • 1966A Mother's Devotion
  • 1966A Mother's Heart
  • 1973Nadezhda
  • 1978The Orlovs
  • —Song of Happiness
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