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 Read the sory about  A.  Dovzhenko and  fill in the gaps  in the sentences (1-8) after the text  with necessary  words:

a) cin­ema­tog­ra­phy  b) nowadays   c) documentaries d) of sound films e)  Europe  

f) in 1894  g) silent films  h) children

A.  Dovzhenko  is the famous Ukrainian writer, the  director of  silent films. He is  one of the founders of  Ukrainian cinematography.  He   is considered by many to have been one of the world's greatest film directors.  

 He was born    in 1894  in Chernigivskaya region.  His parents had many children--fourteen in all,  two survived,  Alexandr and his  sister Polina, who became a doctor. The other children died at different times, hardly any of them reaching working age.   

   Because of political problems, he was able to complete only seven feature-length films;  these include his major works, "Zvenihora, Arsenal, " and "Earth."  They were about   contemporary life, with the common man at its centre.  They were named among the best films of all times.   He travelled around Europe showing his best films to Europeans.

He also visited Great Britain once. He studied the possibilities of sound films there.

He was a correspondent in World War II and sketched for films, stories, plays, and novels.   

He worked for the Odesa and Kyiv studios. Apart from a number of feature films he made documentaries. Besides he wrote script-like stories and plays. Since 1946 he stayed to work at the Mos­film Studio. He died in Moscow in 1956.

  O. Dovzhenko became an important figure­ in national and world cin­ema­tog­ra­phy.   

The Kyiv Studio bears his name nowadays.  The Dovzhenko prize was instituted in 1983.

1. A.  Dovzhenko  is the famous Ukrainian writer, the  director of ….

2. He was born   …   in Chernigivskaya region.

3. There  were  fourteen  … in the Dovzhenkos family.  

4. O. Dovzhenko became  an important figure­ in national and world ….  

5.  He travelled around  …  showing his best films to Europeans .

 6. He studied the possibilities ….  in Great Britain.

7. He made  feature films and …. .

 8. The Kyiv Studio bears his name … .