Юрій Іллєнко
09/05/1936 - 15/06/2010 - Cherkasy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Yuri Illienko (18 July 1936 – 15 June 2010) was a Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1965 and 2002. His 1970 film The White Bird Marked with Black was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize. Illienko was one of Ukraine's most influential filmmakers. His films represented Ukraine and what was happening to it. His films were banned in the USSR for their suspected anti-Soviet symbolism. Only in the recent years ...Lire la suite
