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Oleksandr Yanchuk

Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine

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Oleksandr Yanchuk

    born in 1956

Film Director, Film Producer, Screenwriter

    Corresponding Member of the NAA of Ukraine (2021)

    People's Artist of Ukraine (2008)

    Honoured Contributor to the Arts of Ukraine (1998)

    Laureate of the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Prize (2020)

Oles Yanchuk is one of the most prominent contemporary Ukrainian film directors, widely known for his historical productions. His body of work includes ten feature and documentary films. Nearly all of his projects focus on figures and topics that were long suppressed during the Soviet era. Yanchuk was the first to bring to the big screen the harrowing truths of Ukrainian history. His film "Famine-33" (1991), which portrays the tragedy of the Holodomor in Ukraine, was created years before the state officially recognized and commemorated its victims.
Among his notable films are "The Unvanquished" (2000), "The Iron Hundred" (2004), and "Assassination. An Autumn Murder in Munich" (1995) — stories of struggle and the tragic fate of patriots caught between two oppressive regimes: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR. His 2008 film "Metropolitan Andrey" is a cinematic portrayal of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
In 2018, Yanchuk released "The Secret Diary of Symon Petliura," a historical psychological drama about the Chief Otaman of the Ukrainian People's Republic’s army, Symon Petliura.
Oles Yanchuk skillfully manages the distribution of his films both in Ukraine and abroad, including in Canada, Australia, and the United States. Today, as the General Director of the Dovzhenko National Film Studio, he dedicates significant efforts to ensuring the full and sustainable operation of Ukraine’s principal film studio.
Since 1996 — a Member of the Ukrainian Motion Picture Association, since 2016 — Secretary of the Board of the Ukrainian Motion Picture Association, 2017-2023 — Chairman of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. Since 2019, he has been a member of the European Film Academy.
Awards: Order of Merit, 3rd degree (September 2021); Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine (2012).

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