Ilyenko, Yuri Gerasimovich

Born on May 9 (according to other sources - July 18 ), 1936 in Cherkasy . He spent the years of World War II with his family in evacuation in Siberia (his father was at the front). In 1960 he graduated from VGIK (supervisors - B.I. Volchek , S.P. Urusevsky ). He made his debut as a cameraman in the film by A. A. Segel “Farewell to the Pigeons” (1960). He worked at the Yalta film studio, since 1963 at the A.P. Dovzhenko film studio in Kiev . Ilyenko brought world fame cameraman work in the film S. I. Parajanov " Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors " (1964).

The directorial works of Ilyenko belong to the school of Ukrainian poetic cinema ( L. M. Osyka and others). They are awarded at international film festivals.

Appeared in several films as an actor (" Newton Street, Building 1 ", 1963). He was also exhibited as an artist.

Member of the CPSU since 1973 . During the independence of Ukraine, he took an active political position, professed the ideas of modern Ukrainian nationalism , propagating them in his literary and artistic works and journalism ^{[2] [3] [4]} . In the last years of his life, he was a member of the political council of the All-Ukrainian association “Freedom” .

He died on June 15, 2010 in the village of Prokhorovka ( Kanevsky district , Cherkasy region , Ukraine ). Buried there.

Brothers - Vadim Gerasimovich Ilyenko , cameraman, and Mikhail Gerasimovich Ilyenko , director.

Wife - Lyudmila Filippovna Efimenko , two sons were born in marriage, Philip and Andrey . The first wife was actress Larisa Kadochnikova , divorced ^{[5] [6]} .

Operator

1. 1960 - Goodbye Doves
2. 1962 - There is a son somewhere
3. 1964 - Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
4. 1999 - Ave Maria

Producer

1. 1965 - Spring for the thirsty
2. 1968 - Evening on the eve of Ivan Kupala
3. 1971 - White bird with a black mark (first prize of the Moscow IFF , IFF award in Sorrento , operator - Vilen Kaluta )
4. 1972 - Contrary to everything (Soviet-Yugoslav)
5. 1974 - Dreaming and living (according to the script of Ivan Mikolaychuk )
6. 1976 - Holiday of baked potatoes
7. 1979 - Strip of mowed wild flowers
8. 1981 - Forest Song. Mavka (in the Ukrainian Forest )
9. 1983 - The Legend of Princess Olga
10. 1987 - Straw Bells
11. 1990 - Swan Lake. Zone (scripted by S. Parajanov, FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes IFF )
12. 1996 - Sergey Parajanov. Score of Christ in C Major
13. 2002 - Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

Screenwriter

1. 1983 - Mirgorod and its inhabitants (script; director Mikhail Ilyenko )

Actor

1. 1963 - Newton Street, 1 - Timothy Suvernev (voiced by Kirill Lavrov )
2. 1974 - Dreaming and Living - Foundry Gerasim
3. 2001 - Prayer for Hetman Mazepa - General Beetle

Since 1986, head of the department of film direction and film dramaturgy of the Kiev Institute of Theater Arts named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary , professor.

• "The paradigm of cinema." Kiev: Abris, 1999

• People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1987)
• Member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine ( 1996 )
• Honorary Insignia of the President of Ukraine (1996) ^[7]
• State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after T.G.Shevchenko (1991) - for the film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"
• Order of Merit, II Art. ( September 10, 2008 ) ^[8]
• State Prize of Ukraine named after Alexander Dovzhenko (2005) - for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic cinema
• During decommunization in 2018, in honor of Yuri Ilyenko, Melnikov Street was renamed

• Yuri Ilyenko in the Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema (inaccessible link)