
Known for
Directing
Born
May 9, 1936
Birthplace
Cherkasy, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Died
June 15, 2010 (aged 74)
Yuri Illienko (18 July 1936 – 15 June 2010) was a Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1965 and 2002. His 1970 film The White Bird Marked with Black was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize.
Illienko was one of Ukraine's most influential filmmakers. His films represented Ukraine and what was happening to it. His films were banned in the USSR for their suspected anti-Soviet symbolism. Only in the recent years have his films been re-released and open to the public.
Illienko was born in Cherkasy in 1936 but during World War II his family was evacuated to Siberia while his father was in the Red Army. He grad...
2003
as Marshall Zhukov, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
1999
as artist, Director of Photography
1998
as self
1998
1995
as (self)
1994
Director, Director of Photography
1993
1991
Screenplay
1990
Director, Director of Photography, Writer
1987
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
1984
Director, Writer
1983
Screenplay
1980
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
1979
Director, Writer
1978
Director
1975
as Gerasim, Director, Screenplay
1973
Director
1972
Director, Writer
1968
Director, Writer
1968
Screenplay
1965
Director of Photography
1965
Director, Director of Photography
1963
as Timofey Suvernev
1962
Director of Photography
1960
Director of Photography