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Nikolay Grinko was born on 22 May 1920 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Solaris (1972), Stalker (1979) and Andrei Rublev (1966). He died on 10 April 1989 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Director
- Writer
- Actress
Kira Muratova was born on 5 November 1934 in Soroca, Romania [now Moldova]. She was a director and writer, known for Nastroyshchik (2004), Vtorostepennye lyudi (2001) and The Asthenic Syndrome (1989). She was married to Aleksandr Muratov and Yevgeni Golubenko. She died on 6 June 2018 in Odessa, Ukraine.- Nikolay Yakovchenko was born on 3 May 1900 in Priluki, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Viy (1967), The Night Before Christmas (1961) and Koroleva benzokolonki (1963). He died on 11 September 1974 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
- Bogdan Stupka is one of Ukraine's most famous actors. His most memorable stage role was as Tevye the Milkman in Sholom Aleichem's Tevye-Tevel (aka... Fiddler on the Roof (1971)). After a brief stint as the Ukrainean Minister of Culture, he is the Executive Director of the Ivan Franko State Theater in Kyiv. Along with his administrative duties, Mr. Stupka was performing several times a week in various new and traditional productions. He also toured with his company, was appearing in two or three films every year, while still devoted much time to his wife of many years as well as his son Ostap Stupka and his grandchildren.
- Vladik was born on 29 December 1990. He died on 20 October 2009 in Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine.
- Pyotr Vesklyarov was born on 9 June 1911 in Talne, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Viy (1967), Lisova pisnya (1961) and Proshchayte, golubi (1961). He died on 5 January 1994 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Valentina Ivashova was born on 12 July 1915. She was an actress, known for Alexander Nevsky (1938), Sluchainaya vstrecha (1936) and The Rainbow (1944). She died on 5 July 1991 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Gonzalo Lira was born on 29 February 1968 in Burbank, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Secuestro (2005), Soldier of Fortune (2000) and The Ralph Retort Killstream Postmortem (2018). He died on 12 January 2024 in Ukraine.- Writer
- Actor
- Art Director
Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz was born on 10 August 1898 in Okunevo, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Hlybokaye Raion, Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus]. He was a writer and actor, known for District Attorney (1933), Bialy Murzyn (1939) and Znachor (1937). He died on 20 September 1939 in Kuty, Stanislawowskie, Poland [now Kuty, Ukraine].- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Leonid Bykov was born on 12 December 1928 in Znamenskoye, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974), Little Hare (1965) and Aty-baty, shli soldaty... (1977). He died on 11 April 1979 in Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Vera Kholodnaya was born on 5 August 1893 in Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Her Sister's Rival (1916), Stolichnyi iad (1917) and Deti veka (1915). She was married to Vladimir Kholodny. She died on 17 February 1919 in Odessa, Ukraine.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Pasqualino De Santis was born on 24 April 1927 in Fondi, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for Romeo and Juliet (1968), Death in Venice (1971) and Three Brothers (1981). He died on 23 June 1996 in Lviv, Ukraine.- Nikolai Sektimenko was born on 23 January 1949 in Dneprodzerzhynsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for The Ascent (1977), Budni ugolovnogo rozyska (1973) and Zozulya s diplomom (1972). He died on 4 March 2007 in Dniprodzherzinsk, Ukraine.
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Yuri Ilyenko was born on 18 July 1936 in Cherkassy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Cherkasy, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu oznakoyu (1971), Swan Lake: The Zone (1990) and Vechir na Ivana Kupala (1968). He was married to Lyudmila Efimenko and Larisa Kadochnikova. He died on 15 June 2010 in Prokhorivka, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine.- Stepan Shkurat was born on 8 January 1886 in Kobelyaki, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Earth (1930), Viy (1967) and Natalka Poltavka (1936). He died on 26 February 1973 in Romny, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Producer
Mantas Kvedaravicius (Lithuania) was a filmmaker and an academic who holds the long-standing interests in absence, materially and body in their performative and political manifestations. He held a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and was an Associate Professor at Vilnius University. His documentaries - Barzakh (2011) and Mariupolis (2016) have premiered and been awarded in Berlinale, Busan, Hong-Kong, Nyon Visions du Réel film festivals.- Yuliya Volchkova was born on 29 August 1974 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Dikiy tabun (2003), A Friend of the Deceased (1997) and Reportazh (1995). She was married to Ivan Sautkin. She died on 10 November 2018 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Pavlo Li was born on 10 July 1988 in Yevpatoria, Crimea, Ukraine. He was an actor, known for Egregor (2021), #Selfieparty (2016) and Unforgotten Shadows (2013). He died on 6 March 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Borislav Brondukov was born on 1 March 1938 in Dubava, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Afonya (1975), Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches (1987) and Zhenitba (1978). He died on 10 March 2004 in Kyiv, Ukraine.- Schulz is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable writers in Polish literature of the first half of the 20h Century. He was born in Drohobycz, a small village near Lvov, where he would live until he was shot by the Nazis on the street on November 19th, 1942. By then, Schulz had published two books. They were collections of stories and prose texts of extremely original style and contents. The first collection was published as The Cinnamon Shops in 1933; the second, published as Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra, was published in 1937. Schulz's work has often been compared to Franz Kafka's.
- Andrei Ivanovich Krasko was born on August 10, 1957 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). His father was notable Russian actor Ivan Krasko, his mother was Kira Petrova, a schoolteacher. From 1974-1979, he studied acting at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography, graduating as actor in 1979. That same year, he made his film debut in 'Lichnoe Svidanie', then played bit parts in several Soviet films.
Andrei Krasko was married twice and had two children. His first marriage to a fellow student actress ended in separation after six months. Soon he was treated at a psychiatric clinic, then he was fired from a theatre company. Then, for several years, Krasko worked various jobs, such as a cemetery worker, a repairman, a car mechanic, a tailor, as he was struggling to survive and had to change many professions. He was in an 8-year hiatus before he made a comeback as a film star. Krasko shot to fame after starring in several popular television series, such as Banditskiy Peterburg: Baron (2000), 'Agent natsionalnoi bezopasnosti', and other television hits. On the big screen, he co-starred with Vladimir Mashkov and Mariya Mironova in Tycoon: A New Russian (2002), then with Sergey Makovetskiy and Marat Basharov in 72 metra (2004). He played supporting roles in such war dramas as 9th Company (2005), 'Svolochi' The Turkish Gambit (2005). His last work in film was a supporting role as Felix Korogodsky, a Russian tycoon in the popular comedy Lyubov-Morkov (2007).
Andrei Krasko eventually became a popular and reputable Russian actor. During the 2000s, his acting career was ascending. He played more than 40 roles in film and on television. Krasko also gave memorable performances on stage at St. Petersburg Theatre "Priyut Komedianta", where his show "Moskva - Petushki" was consistently sold out for two seasons. He won great respect for his acting talent as well as for his diligent effort in overcoming his personal issues and his problems with alcohol. Andrei Krasko died of a heart failure at age 48 on July 5, 2006 in Odessa, Ukraine, and was laid to rest in Komarovo cemetery in St. Peterburg, Russia. - Tivadar Uray was born on 9 November 1895 in Munkács, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Szegény gazdagok (1938), Semmelweis (1940) and A Noszty fiú esete Tóth Marival (1960). He was married to Heim, Stefánia and Erzsi Ághy. He died on 22 June 1962 in Mukachevo, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine].
- Director
- Writer
- Animation Department
David Cherkasskiy was born on 23 August 1932 in Shpola, Ukrainskaya SSR, USSR. He was a director and writer, known for Ostrov Sokrovishch (1988), Goodbye, Pharaohs! (1975) and Komunalne. He died on 30 October 2018 in Kyiv, Ukraine.- Lev Perfilov was born on 13 February 1933 in Kolomna, Moskovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Hard to Be a God (1989), Kin-dza-dza! (1986) and The Adventures of the Electronic (1979). He died on 24 January 2000 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Mariya Kapnist was born on 22 March 1913 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972), Shans (1984) and Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1980). She died on 25 October 1993 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Actor
- Producer
Vladimir Emelyanov was born on 20 June 1911 in Perm, Perm uyezd, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire [now Perm Krai, Russia]. He was an actor and producer, known for King Lear (1970), Planeta bur (1962) and Vikhri vrazhdebnye (1953). He died on 2 July 1975 in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Actor
- Soundtrack
Oleg Dal was born on 25 May 1941 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Plokhoy khoroshiy chelovek (1973), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980) and King Lear (1970). He was married to Tatyana Lavrova, Nina Doroshina and Elizaveta Apraksina. He died on 3 March 1981 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz was born on 24 February 1885 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Nursery Rhyme of a Madman (2017), Farewell to Autumn (1990) and W starym dworku czyli niepodleglosc trójkatów (1984). He was married to Jadwiga Witkiewiczowa. He died on 18 September 1939 in Jeziory, Poleskie, Poland [now Velyki Ozera, Ukraine].
- Czar Aleksandr III was born on 10 March 1845 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was married to Czarina Maria Fyodorovna. He died on 2 November 1894 in Livadiya, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine].
- Aleksandr Kryzhanovskiy was born on 13 October 1957 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Battle for Sevastopol (2015), Evilenko (2003) and Bucha (2024). He was married to Tamara Plashenko. He died on 21 November 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Count Jan Potocki (8 March 1761 - 23 December 1815) was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveler and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. He is known chiefly for his picaresque novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Born into affluent Polish nobility, Potocki lived abroad from an early age and was primarily educated in Switzerland. He frequently visited the salons of Paris and toured Europe before temporarily returning to Poland in 1778. As a soldier, he fought in Austrian ranks in the War of the Bavarian Succession, and in 1789 was appointed a military engineer in the Polish army. During his extensive voyages he actively documented prevailing customs, ongoing wars, revolutions and national awakenings, which made him a pioneer of travel literature. Fascinated by the occult, Potocki studied ancient cultures, rituals and secret societies. Simultaneously, he was a member of parliament and took part in the Great Sejm shortly before the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to exist. In spite of his literary career, Potocki became burdened by mental illness, melancholy as well as severe clinical lycanthropy, which led him to believe that he was transformed into a werewolf. He committed suicide by gunshot in 1815, however, the circumstances of his death remain controversial to this day.
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Art Director
Timofei Levchuk was born on 19 January 1912 in village Bystrievka, Skvira uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ruzhyn Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and assistant director, known for Zakon Antarktidy (1963), Bukhta smerti (1991) and Esli vrag ne sdayotsya... (1983). He died on 14 December 1998 in Kyiv, Ukraine.- Viktor Stepanov was born on 21 May 1947 in Severo-Kurilsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Poslednee delo Varyonogo (1994), Mikhaylo Lomonosov (1986) and Groza nad Rusyu (1992). He died on 27 December 2005 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Anatoli Yurchenko was born on 27 August 1939 in Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Za dvoma zaytsiamy (1961), Akwarium (1996) and Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974). He died on 3 August 2003 in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Vasiliy Kukharskiy was born on 2 December 1981 in the USSR. He was an actor, known for Wataha (2014), Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf (2022) and Toloka (2020). He died on 7 December 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Nikolay Olyalin was born on 22 May 1941 in Opikhalino, Vologda Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Night Watch (2004), Day Watch (2006) and Ne otstrelennaya muzyka (1990). He was married to Nelly Ivanovna Olyalina. He died on 17 November 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine.- Cinematographer
- Director
- Producer
Brent Renaud was a Peabody and DuPont Award winning filmmaker and spent the past two decades producing films and television programs with his brother Craig. The Renaud Brothers are best known for telling humanistic stories from the World's hot spots and their projects have covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the earthquake in Haiti, political turmoil in Egypt and Libya, the fight for Mosul, extremism in Africa, cartel violence in Mexico, and the youth refugee crisis in Central America.
Their work has won many of the top awards in television and journalism, including a Peabody Award, two Columbia DuPont Awards, two Overseas Press Club Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, an IDA Award, a DGA nomination for Best Directors and multiple Emmy nominations. Their films have also received critical acclaim in Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Forbes, USA Today, the New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and American Cinematographer. Craig and his brother Brent also founded the Little Rock Film Festival and the Arkansas Motion Picture Institute.- Irina Tokarchuk was born on 20 July 1959 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. She was an actress, known for 12 stulev (2004), Vozdushnye piraty (1992) and Zaveshchanie (1986). She died on 25 January 2021 in Odessa, Ukraine.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Yevgeni Petrov was born Evgeni Petrovich Kataev on November 30, 1902, in Odessa, Russian Empire (Now Odesa, Ukraine). His father, named Petr Kataev, was a teacher. Petrov graduated from Classical Gymnasium in 1920, and became a news correspondent for the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency. From 1921-1923 he was a criminologist and homicide inspector in Odessa. In 1923 Petrov moved to Moscow and became a journalist in a Soviet magazine "Krasny Perets" (Red Pepper). With the help from his brother, Valentin Kataev, who was already a popular writer, Petrov made connections in the Moscow literary milieu.
In 1925 he met Ilya Ilf and a year later they started writing together. Their first novel titled 'Dvenadtsat Stulev' (Twelve Chairs) was published in 1928. It's main character, named Ostap Bender, became a popular synonym for a charming and smooth criminal. The book had instant success with the general public, but was bashed by the Soviet critics, because it satirized the loss of civility and degradation of cultural values in the Soviet Union. The book was praised by such writers as Vladimir Mayakovsky and later by Vladimir Nabokov. Their second novel by Ilf and Petrov was 'Zolotoi Telenok' (Golden Calf), published in 1931, in a magazine, then in 1933, as a book. Both novels became bestsellers in the Soviet Union. Several film and TV adaptations were made in the Soviet Union by such directors as Leonid Gaidai and Mark Zakharov, among others. In 1970, an American adaptation was made by director Mel Brooks starring Frank Langella as Ostap Bender. The character of Ostap Bender was portrayed by such renown Russian actors as Sergey Yurskiy, Archil Gomiashvili, Andrey Mironov, and Oleg Menshikov.
In 1933-1934 Ilf and Petrov traveled across Europe. In 1935 they made a journey by car about the United States, which gave them material for a popular book 'Odnoetazhnaya Amerika' (The One-Storey America 1937). Ilya Ilf died of tuberculosis on April 13, 1937. His partner, Yevgeni Petrov, died in a plane crash on July 2, 1942, on a flight from Sevastopol to Moscow.
In 1948 Andrei Zhdanov attacked many Soviet intellectuals and banned the books of Ilf and Petrov among others. The Communist Party ordered their books banned and removed from all public libraries across the Soviet Union. Eight years later the ban was lifted during the political "Thaw" initiated by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956.- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Andriy Kuzmenko was born on 17 August 1968 in Sambor, Samborskiy rayon, Lvovskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Sambir, Sambirskyy rayon, Lvivska oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor and writer, known for Blindfold (2020), City Where Money Does Not Circulate (2018) and Krasnaya shapochka (2008). He was married to Svetlana Babiychuk. He died on 2 February 2015 in Lozuvatka, Kryvorizkyy rayon, Dnipropetrovska oblast, Ukraine.- Leonid Bakshtaev was born on 10 May 1934 in village Dobryn, Elsk Raion, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Dabryn, Jelsk District, Gomel Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Petlya Oriona (1981), Prostyye zaboty (1975) and Tretye pokoleniye (1985). He died on 29 July 1995 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Sergey Petrov was born on 21 September 1895 in Perm, Permskaya guberniya, Russian Empire [now Permskiy kray, Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Kolodetz smerti (1934), Attack from the Sea (1953) and Polikushka (1922). He died on 2 November 1965 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Ivan Mykolaichuk is a Ukrainian movie actor (34 roles), director of two movies and screen writer of nine movies. He was born in a family of peasants in a village of Chortoryia in Western Ukraine. Ivan Mukolaichuk finished the Chernivtsi Music College and the theater-studio of Olha Kobylianska Chernivtsi Music-Drama Theater. Graduated from Ukrainian National University of Theater, Film and TV of Karpenko-Kary in 1965. He became famous after he had played the leading role in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965).- Dmitriy Mirgorodskiy was born on 25 September 1939 in Zaporozh'ye, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Chyornyy kapitan (1973), Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974) and Budni ugolovnogo rozyska (1973). He died on 20 July 2001 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych was born on 13 December 1877 in Monastyrok, Podolia, Russian Empire [now Monastyrok, Vinnytsia Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine]. Mykola Dmytrovych was a composer, known for Die Hard 2 (1990), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) and C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005). Mykola Dmytrovych died on 23 January 1921 in Markivka, Podolian Governorate, Ukrainian SSR [now Markivka, Haisin Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine].- Vasily Zaitsev was born on 23 March 1915 in Russia. He died on 15 December 1991 in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Valeriya Zaklunnaya was born on 15 August 1942 in Stalingrad, RSFSR, USSR [now Volgograd, Russia]. She was an actress, known for The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979), Pozdnyaya yagoda (1978) and Sibiryachka (1973). She was married to Alexander Mironenko, Valeri Sivak and Garri Bardin. She died on 22 October 2016 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Aleksei Katyshev was born on 17 March 1949 in Stalino Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Through Fire, Water and... Trumpets (1968), The Fair Barbara (1970) and Pro Vityu, pro Mashu i morskuyu pekhotu (1974). He was married to Irina. He died on 30 November 2006 in Yalta, Ukraine.
- Leonid Yanovskiy was born on 13 April 1946 in Kiev, USSR. He was an actor, known for Hetmanski kleinody (1993), Na ostriye mecha (1987) and Za pyat sekund do katastrofy (1977). He died on 28 April 1996 in Kiev, Ukraine.
- Arkadiy Gaydar was born on 22 January 1904 in Lgov, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kursk Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Timur i yego komanda (1940), Sudba barabanshchika (1956) and The Ballad of Cossack Golota (1937). He died on 26 October 1941 in Leplyavo, Kanev Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lyuplyava, Kaniv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine].