Mykola Vinhranovsky
Also Known As: Nikolay Vingranovskiy, Mykola Vinhranovskyi
Biography: Writer, actor, film director, and translator. He graduated from the All-Union Institute of Cinematography (1960) in Moscow and has worked at the Kyiv Artistic Film Studio, where he played the lead role in Yuliia Solntseva's film The Tale of Flaming Years (1961). He wrote film scripts and directed the feature films The Squadron Turns Westward (1967), The Shore of Hope (1967), Duma about Brytanka (1969), and Klymko (1984) and several documentaries. Vinhranovsky gained prominence in the early 1960s as a leading poet of the shistdesiatnyky. He published the poetry collections Atomic Preludes (1962), A Hundred Poems (1967), Poems (1971), On the Silver Shore (1978), Kyiv (1982), With Warm Lips and a Golden Heart (1984), I Love This Woman (1990), From the Days Embraced by You (1993), and Love, Do Not Say Farewell (1997); several books of stories, including In the Depth of the Rains (1980; about the making of a film) and The Horse on the Evening Star (1986); the novel Nalyvaiko (1991); and, from 1970, several poetry books for children, for which he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize in 1984.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Pervomaisk, Odesa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine]
Adult: No
Birthday: November 07, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 26, 2004
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Chronicle of Flaming Years
Overview: Once again, director Yulia Solnsteva directs a movie that her late husband Alexandre Dovchenko scripted but did not live long enough to shoot. In this wartime drama, the emphasis is on the heroics of both the civilians and the soldiers during times of severe stress in World War II. At the core of the action is one man in particular, whose sacrifices and heroics speak for a much larger group.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-02-23
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Duma about Brytanka
Overview: The film tells about the brutal class struggle during the civil war in the villages of southern Ukraine.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1970-02-02
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The Shore of Hope
Overview: The film is set on an island in the Pacific where a hydrogen bomb is being tested. A group of local fishermen die from radiation sickness. The inventor of the bomb, American scientist Thomas Sherwood, also receives a large dose of radiation and is now terminally ill. Once he professed the theory of "redemption through his own suffering," but now, in the face of death, he realized that such atonement does not benefit anyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-05-29
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Dovzhenko. Diary. 1941-1945
Overview: An outstanding poet, student of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Vinhranovsky reads excerpts from his teacher's diary, comments on it - thereby emphasizing the tragic fate of the great artist. The film uses a chronicle of the war and post-war years.
Genres: Documentary History War TV Movie
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Halych is the capital of Prince Danylo Halytsky
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Baturyn is the capital of Hetman Ivan Mazepa
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Chyhyryn is the capital of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Khortytsia is the capital of Zaporozhian Sich
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Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Ukrainian Night of the 33rd
Overview: Ukrainian Night of the 33rd is series of documentaries about the Holodomor, which includes the “Fear”, “Horror”, “Guillotine”, “Case of Hrushevsky.” Each part is full of horror, and the viewer is constantly in tension.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Ukrainian Rhapsody
Overview: Singer Oksana has lost her beloved in the war. Everyone thinks he perished, but actually he was taken prisoner, then ran away, hid, fell into American hands, and… Finally, he returns to his village, and meets Oksana. —Yerevan International Film Festival
Genres: Drama Romance War Music
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1961-09-25
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Микола Вінграновський
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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