Alexander Arturovich Rowe is a famous Soviet film director. During his cinematic life, he shot many fairy-tale films that have become classics of Russian and world cinema.
Biography of the great storyteller Rowe
Alexander Arturovich Rowe was born in the Ivanovo region in 1906 in the family of an Irish engineer and a Greek woman. Arthur Howard Rowe came to the city of Yuryevets in 1905 under a contract to raise flour-grinding production, and in 1914, leaving his family, he left Russia.
Roe's mother was in poor health, and Alexander had to work from an early age - selling handicraft haberdashery. After graduating from a seven-year school, he entered the industrial and economic technical school. At the age of 15, Rowe became interested in art and began working at the Blue Blouse propaganda theater. A new hobby so captured him that Rowe transferred from an industrial technical school to a film school, which he successfully graduated in 1930, and in 1934 - became a graduate of the Ermolova Drama College.
While still a student at the drama college, Rowe began working at the Mezhrabpomfilm film studio - first as an assistant and then as an assistant director. He worked with the famous director Yakov Protazanov on the set of his films "Puppets" and "Dowry".
Soyuzdetfilm was later renamed into TsKDUF (M. Gorky Central Film Studio for Children and Youth Films).
In 1937, Alexander Rowe was admitted to the Soyuzdetfilm studio, where in 1938 he made his debut as a filmmaker with the fairy tale film At the Pike's Command. So a fabulous movie for viewers of different ages became the main business of his life.
Movie tales by Alexander Rowe
Not being Russian by blood, Alexander Arturovich Rowe shot a lot of movie fairy tales based on Russian folklore: "Vasilisa the Beautiful", "Kashchei the Immortal", "Mary the Artisan", "Fire, Water and Copper Pipes", "Frost", "Varvara- beauty, long braid."
The paintings of Alexander Arturovich Rowe are imbued with poetry, folk wisdom, humor, fantastic romance. The main theme of these films is the struggle between good and evil, they very vividly show the national characters of the characters.
Director Rowe's filmography includes works based on famous literary works. These are “The New Adventures of Puss in Boots” (after Charles Perrault), “The Little Humpbacked Horse” (based on the famous fairy tale by PP Ershov), “The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors” (based on the fairy tale of the same name by the writer V. Gubarev), “May Night, or the Drowned Woman "and" Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka "(both pictures are based on the works of Nikolai Gogol).
Rowe was very attentive to the technical achievements of cinema, attached great importance to the combination of visual images with musical ones. He directed the stereofilms A Day of Wonderful Impressions (1949) and A Precious Gift (1956).
A. A. Rowe died in 1973 in Moscow. The director was buried at the Babushkinskoye cemetery.
There are 16 films in the filmography of Alexander Arturovich Rowe. He also wrote scripts for 6 films. The film "Finist - Clear Falcon" was staged in 1975 according to a script by Alexander Rowe after his death.
