Mark Donskoy
Directing
March 6, 1901
Died March 20, 1981 (80 years old)
Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
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Acting Credits
21
Directed
Biography
Mark Semyonovich Donskoy (6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1901 – 21 March 1981) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and studio administrative head. Donskoy was born in Odessa in a Jewish family. During the Civil War, he served in the Red Army (1921-1923), and was held captive by the White Russians for ten months. After he was freed, he was discharged from military service. He studied psychology and psychiatry at the Crimean Medical School. In 1925 he graduated from the legal department of the ...
