Viktor Ivchenko


Viktor Ilarionovych Ivchenko was a Soviet Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and theatre pedagogue. He worked at the Zankovetska Ukrainian Drama Theatre and at the Kyiv Feature Film Studio named after O. Dovzhenko. He was named People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and received the Shevchenko National Prize. He was the father of film director Borys Ivchenko.

Biography

Ivchenko was born in Bohodukhiv, then in the Kharkiv Governorate of the Russian Empire. He graduated from the Kharkiv Road-Construction College in 1933 and the Kyiv Theatre Institute in 1937. He worked as an actor and stage director at the Zankovetska Ukrainian Drama Theatre from 1937 to 1953, and from 1953 until his death was a film director at the Kyiv Feature Film Studio named after O. Dovzhenko. He taught at the Kyiv Theatre Institute in the 1960s–1970s.
He was married to Olha Nozhkina and later to actress Ninel Myshkova. Ivchenko died on 6 November 1972 in Kyiv.

Selected filmography

Marina’s Destiny — In Competition, 1954 Cannes Film Festival.Nazar Stodolia There Is Such a Fellow E.A. – Extraordinary Accident Ivanna Forest Song — co-writer.Hello, Hnat! The Silver Coach The Viper The Tenth Step Frost Was Falling Way to the Heart
  • ''Sofia Hrushko''

Honours and awards