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Yurii Illienko

Yurii Illienko

Director · Born 1936-05-09 · Cherkasy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

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Biography

Yuri Illienko (18 July 1936 – 15 June 2010) was a Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1965 and 2002. His 1970 film The White Bird Marked with Black was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize. Illienko was one of Ukraine's most influential filmmakers. His films represented Ukraine and what was happening to it. His films were banned in the USSR for their suspected anti-Soviet symbolism. Only in the recent years have his films been re-released and open to the public. Illienko was born in Cherkasy in 1936 but during World War II his family was evacuated to Siberia while his father was in the Red Army. He graduated high school in Moscow and Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1960. From 1960 till 1963 he worked as a director of photography at the Yalta Film Studio. In 1963 Illienko started his work as an operator and then a director at Dovzhenko Film Studios. His 1965 film Spring for the Thirsty (written by Ivan Drach) and 1968 film Vechir Na Ivan Kupala where both banned by the Soviet authorities till 1988. His 1971 film The White Bird Marked with Black, received the grand prize of the Moscow F…

Directed

  1. A Spring for the Thirsty (1965) — Director
  2. The White Bird Marked with Black (1972) — Director
  3. The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968) — Director
  4. A Story of the Forest: Mavka (1980) — Director
  5. Swan Lake: The Zone (1990) — Director
  6. A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa (2003) — Director
  7. The Legend of Princess Olga (1984) — Director
  8. Defying Everybody (1973) — Director
  9. A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers (1979) — Director
  10. The Feast of the Baked Potato (1978) — Director
  11. To Dream and to Live (1974) — Director
  12. Straw Bells (1987) — Director
  13. Paradzhanov: Christ score in C major (1994) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa (2003) — Marshall Zhukov
  2. To Remember (1993) — Narrator
  3. To Dream and to Live (1974) — Герасим, литейщик
  4. 1 Newton Street (1963) — Timofey Suvernev
  5. Ave Maria (1999) — artist
  6. Ivan Mykolaichuk. Dedication (1998) — self
  7. A Farewell To Cinema (1995) — (self)
  8. Paradzhanov: Christ score in C major (1994)
  9. Ivan Marchuk: "The voice of my soul" (1998) — self