Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
18
Gender
Male
Birthday
1909-02-13
Day of Death
1981-06-18 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Kozyatin, Kievskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Also Known As
V. Ivanov
Віктор Іванов
Іванов Віктор Михайлович
Виктор Иванов
Victor Ivanov
В. Иванов
Viktor Ivanov
Biography
Viktor Ivanov is a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, writer. He was born in the city of Kozyatyn, Kyiv province. In 1936, he graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (Sergei Eisenstein's workshop). During World War II, he fought in the ranks of the Red Army and was wounded. He worked at the Sverdlovsk, Vilnius, Kaunas film studios. Since 1950, he worked as a director at the Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio. He was a member of the Union of Writers of Ukraine (since 1956) and the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.
