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Filmmaker · Ukraine

Leonid Osyka

Died in 2001

Leonid Osyka was born on 8 March 1940 in Kyiv, the son of a house painter. After leaving the Odessa art and theatre school in 1959, he studied at the film school in Moscow in the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov, who rejected a first film for “formalism”, then joined the Kyiv studio. Pushed aside in 1973 from the poetic manner, he was awarded a prize in 1976 at the All-Union film festival for his treatment of the military and patriotic theme, then wrote with Parajanov a screenplay filmed in 1989. People's Artist of Ukraine in 1998, he died in Kyiv on 16 September 2001.

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