Borys Ivchenko

Borys Ivchenko was born on 29 January 1941 in Zaporizhzhia, the son of the director Viktor Ivchenko, People's Artist of Ukraine and winner of the Shevchenko Prize, who had worked at the Dovzhenko studio since 1953. He spent his whole career as a director there himself, and two melodramas from his early years were his greatest popular successes; he also acted. Critics count him among the five major directors of the Ukrainian poetic school. He died in Kyiv on 28 June 1990.

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• CinemaThe Lost LetterПропала грамотаBorys Ivchenko · 1972Cinema