Efimenko, Rodion Rodionovich

Born on November 6, 1934 in Odessa (now Ukraine ) in a family of theatrical figures. Father - Efimenko (Yukhimenko) Rodion Dmitrievich, director, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (since 1948). From 1937 to 1951, including the evacuation of the theater to Kazakhstan ) was a director, chief director, artistic director of the Poltava Musical Drama Theater named after N.V. Gogol . From 1951 to 1958 he directed the Lugansk Ukrainian Musical Drama Theater named after A. Ostrovsky . Mother - Seletskaya Evgenia Vasilievna, Honored Artist of Ukraine (since 1947), worked for a long period in the musical and drama theaters of Odessa, Kharkov, Lugansk and Poltava, performing on the stage more than a hundred highly artistic dramatic images that always found positive feedback not only from the audience, but also among critics.

Rodionovich Efimenko Rodionovich in 1957 graduated with honors from the I.K. Karpenko-Karyi Kiev State Institute of Theater Arts (currently - I.K. Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theater, Film and Television ). After graduating from the institute, he worked as an assistant director at the A. Dovzhenko Kiev Film Studio , including in the film “The Plug Marries Tarapunk” , the main roles in which were played by unsurpassed masters of Ukrainian humor Yu. Berezin and Yu. Timoshenko . The first film, where R. Efimenko acted as the second director, was for him the film “The First Young Man” by S. Parajanov . After the creation of the Ukrainian television film studio in 1965, Rodion Rodionovich went to work at Ukrtelefilm , where he worked until 1998. With his arrival, the first Ukrainian television film (The City We Live in) was shot at the studio, as well as The first documentary television movie and the first film production. At the same time as working at the studio, R. R. Efimenko, together with V. L. Chubasov, headed the directing course at the I. Karpenko-Kary Kiev State Institute of Theater Arts . Among their graduates are such well-known filmmakers as Anatoly Borsyuk , Vladimir Bortko , Nikolai Maletsky , Vladimir Popkov (1974), as well as Vladimir Goncharov, Boris Nebieridze (1975) and others.

During the period of work at Ukrtelefilm, R. Efimenko became the director, and in some cases, the scriptwriter of more than eighty feature films, documentaries, and journalistic films, as well as concert films and performances. Most remembered by the viewer are such films as “The City I Live in” (1959), “Kobzar lived here” (1966) - the first Ukrainian color film to be awarded many prizes, “Know Yourself” (1971) - Grand Prix and Gold medal at the Varna International Film Festival (1972), Natalka Poltavka (1978), Eighteen Years Old (1987) and others. In films shot by Rodion Efimenko, such well-known actors as A. Mateshko , G. Nilov , V. Ryzhakov, L. Perfilov , N. Sumskaya , K. Stepankov, I. Tereshchenko , V. Shevelkov played ... Music films and films The director’s concerts were dedicated to the works of S. Rotaru , V. Zinkevich , I. Shamo , the Marenice trio , VIA “Kobza”, “Svityazi” and many other famous composers and performers. A number of films by R. Efimenko are devoted to important political events in the life of Ukraine and to individual political figures (A. Emets, I. Drach , V. Filenko , V. Chervoniy , the 500th anniversary of the Ukrainian Cossacks, the Unification Day of Ukraine and many others). Films dedicated to the life and work of T. G. Shevchenko , which caused a wide positive resonance both in Ukraine and far beyond its borders, occupy a special place in the director’s work .

Efimenko (Yukhimenko) Rodion Rodionovich died after a severe and prolonged illness on March 18, 2008 . He is buried next to the graves of his father and mother at the Darnitsky cemetery of Kiev Kiev . Efimenko R.R. is dedicated to the memory of a number of literary works. In particular, the collection “Remember him like that”, Kiev-2009, the publishing house “Cheeks”, compilers Dvornichenko L. M. and Chernukhina L. A. .; short story " Sixth " on the Russian nationwide website "Prozaru" by Alexander Vedov-Moskovsky and others.

He shot films:

• "The city in which we live" (1959),
• “Our Meetings” (1960),
• "Carnival of Youth" (1961),
• "Walking in Kiev" (1962),
• "Masters of the Arts" (1962),
• “The Wedding of the Candle” (1962),
• The Last (1963),
• The Page of Life (1964),
• “We are from Ukraine” (1964),
• “Good afternoon, Kiev” (1965),
• "Kobzar" (1965),
• "Source of inspiration" (1966),
• “Kobzar lived here” (1966, the first color Ukrainian television movie, diploma and prize of the USSR IC),
• 77 Trombones (1966),
• Thirty-Three Minutes of Silence (1967),
• “Philippines in Kiev” (1967),
• "The Hour Over the Planet" (1968),
• "House 25/69" (1969),
• "Yatran" (1969, Prize for the graphic decision of the USSR IC),
• "Know Yourself" (1971, co-written by A. Delendik. Grand Prix and Gold Medal of the International Film Festival of films devoted to medicine, Varna, 1973),
• The First Storm (1972),
• "Who agrees? Who is against? ”(1977, Prize of the magazine“ Screen News ”of the IV Republican Film Festival“ The Man of Labor on the Screen ”, Kremenchug, 1978),
• Natalka Poltavka (1978),
• "Songs of Igor Shamo" (1984),
• "Ukrainian gatherings" (1986),
• "Eighteen Years" (1987, 2 a),
• Reunion
• “Sich. 500th anniversary of the Cossacks ",
• “What kind of people are we?” (1990),
• “I went into politics,”
• Calvary of Ukraine (1991),
• “Mikhailova Gora. ... Thirst, thirst, thirst ... ",
• “Mikhailova Gora. Mary "(1994),
• "Maestro Sergey" (1995),
• Alexandra (1996),
• “From Hem to the Golden Gate” (1998, video).

He is the author of the scripts for the television films Source of Inspiration, Kobzar Lived Here, Filipina in Kiev, House 25/69, and others.

• Spіlka kіnematografіstіv Ukraine. K., 1985. - p. 57;
• Movie. Нcyclopedic dictionary. M., 1987. - P.138;
• Mystetsvo of Ukraine. K., 1997 .-- P.237;
• USE: Universalniy Vocabulary-Encyclopedia. K., 1999 .-- P.498.

• Personality dossier
• Interview with Anatoly Borsyuk in the newspaper "Gordon Boulevard"
• The history of cinema: Efimenko Rodion Rodionovich
• Gala concert of the First All-University competition of literary creativity "Workshop of artistic words"
• Natalka Poltavka
• An evening in memory of Rodion Efimenko
• Shevchenko’s Rodion Efimenko
• Dedicated to Rodion Efimenko
• An attempt to Ukrainize Iceland