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Filmmaker · Belarus

Vladimir Bychkov

Died in 2004

Vladimir Bychkov was born in Moscow on 5 January 1929. He began his career as a director in 1957 and gave the Minsk studio two notable films of the sixties, a fairy tale and a historical narrative that was re-edited and then banned for some twenty years. He subsequently worked mostly for young audiences, between tales and adventure films, and in 2000 made a chronicle of the last Russian imperial family. He died on 24 April 2004, aged seventy-five.

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