Viktor Ivchenko

Viktor Illarionovich Ivchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Іларіонович Івченко) was a film director and writer in Soviet Ukraine.

Ivchenko was born in the city of Bohodukhiv, Kharkov Governorate, on October 9, 1912. In 1933 he graduated from the Kharkiv Road-Construction College and in 1937 - the Kiev Theater Institute. Ivchenko also was a play director of the Ukrainian Drama Theater of M.Zankovetska (1937–1953) and a film director of the Dovzhenko Film Studios (1953–1972).

Ivchenko was first married to Olga Nozhkina, later - Ninel Myshkova.

He wrote scripts for "Forest Song" (1961) and "Annychka" (1968).

Filmography

• "Marina's Destiny" (1953)
• "Nazar Stodolya" (1955)
• "There is a such fellow" (1956)
• "Extraordinary event" (1958)
• "Ivanna" (1959)
• "Forest Song" (1961)
• "Hello, Hnat!" (1962)
• "Silver coach" (1963)
• "Viper" (1965)
• "The 10th step" (1967)
• "Frost was falling" (1969)
• "Way to Heart" (1970)
• "Sofia Hrushko" (1971)

He died on September 7, 1972, at the age of 60.

Awards and Prizes

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Second prize at the 2nd All-Union film festival in Kiev and the 3rd All-Union film festival in Minsk
• Shevchenko National Prize
• People's Artist of Ukraine (1960)

Awards

In 1953, Ivchenko and Isaak Shmaruk were nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival for the film "Marina's Destiny".