Yuri Illienko

Yuri Illienko was born in May 1936 in Cherkasy, spent the war in Siberia and grew up in a working-class suburb of Moscow. He graduated in 1960 from the cinematographers' department of the Moscow film school, worked as an assistant at the Yalta studio, and was then the cinematographer of Paradjanov's film based on Kotsiubynsky. His first film as a director, in 1965, on a screenplay by Ivan Drach, was banned for twenty-two years. The author of forty-seven screenplays, he died on 15 June 2010 in Prokhorivka, near Kaniv.

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• CinemaThe White Bird Marked with BlackБілий птах з чорною ознакоюYuri Illienko · 1970Cinema