
Birthday:
07-26-1945
(79 years)
Birthplace:
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
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Car Washers
Production Designer
event2001
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Kyiv in the nineties, tainted by a serious economic collapse and rising crime. A group of kids boost the family budget by washing cars at a gas station whose proprietors make a living in a rather dodgy way. The story is narrated by the 13-year-old protagonist, who eventually discovers how much this society has affected him.
The Tale of Ivan, Pan and Poverty
Director
event1977 star_border 1
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One gentleman did not give rest to ordinary people, all his offerings and dues were not enough. On purpose, he went home with the poor, taking the last thing he found. It was the turn of Ivan, who did not grieve that they took away their hard-won possessions, but decided to punish the impudent villain and his henchmen, resorting to one trick…
The Night Captains
Production Designer
event1978
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Two fantastic stories that happened to four boys thanks to a rich imagination and a dream to learn as much as possible about the world. Their inquisitive minds dream of the distance, the cosmic expanses, and here and now they want to ride beautiful horses that can soar in the air. Their expectations are being met, and many more adventures await them.
The Forest Song
Art Direction
event1976 star_border 7
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A touching story of a forest beauty Mavka who fell in love with a simple guy Lukash. She is the embodiment of nature and genuine human kindness that do not fall to small problems that could ruin their relationship with Lukash. The consumer attitude towards the environment is touched here.
The Disposable Eternity
Art Direction
event2002
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A collection of short stories based on real-life situations revealing the characteristic features of some people with humor. Some of the characters are methodically trying to achieve a different result, while making the same action over and over again. It is interesting that someone even does it. Not typical twists of plot lines and brightness of the images supplement the film.
Cabbages and Kings
Production Design
event1979 star_border 4.3
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Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars that suddenly turned up at the local barber's, and the mysterious stranger who one day was washed ashore by the waves on the coast of Anchuria...
A Friend of the Deceased
Production Design
event1997 star_border 4.6
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Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.
Toloka
Production Design
event2020 star_border 6.2
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There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Production Design
event1983 star_border 6.5
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Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich', 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt'.
Bumbarash
Production Design
event1972 star_border 5.9
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Private Bumbarash, considered lost in the First World War, suddenly returned to his native village, where no one recognizes, because the money for the memorial service a long time ago employed for other purposes. In a country already in full raging civil war in the tiny village of power is changing every half: red, white, anarchists, gangsters, again red and white for them again, and so on to infinity ... Amid all this chaos Bumbarash tries to arrange his life and personal happiness.
Metropolitan Andrey
Production Design
event2008 star_border 6.2
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Story about Metropolitan of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrey Sheptytsky who opposed repressive totalitarian regimes of Stalin and Hitler and chose the path of service to God and people.
Firecrosser
Production Design
event2012 star_border 5.9
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The Hero of the Soviet Union becomes a GULAG prisoner and then an Indian Chief.
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