Ihor Savchenko

Ihor Savchenko was born on 11 October 1906 in Vinnytsia. From 1919 he worked in touring theatres, studied from 1926 to 1929 at the Leningrad school of the performing arts, then was an actor and director at the Baku theatre of working youth before heading the one in Moscow. He came to cinema in 1933 and gave the Union its first musical comedy. From 1945 until his death he led a workshop at the Moscow film school, where Alov, Naumov, Parajanov and Khutsiev trained; he died in Moscow on 14 December 1950.

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• CinemaTaras ShevchenkoТарас ШевченкоIhor Savchenko · 1951Cinema