Oleh Fialko
Biography
Ukrainian film director and screenwriter. He graduated from the Film Studies and Directing Departments (in Mykola Mashchenko’s workshop) of the Kyiv Karpenko-Kary Theatre Institute. Honored Artist of Ukraine. Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Recipient of the Order of Merit, 3rd Class. Secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. Head of the Ukrainian Oscar Committee. Participant and laureate of national and international film festivals. Worked at the Dovzhenko Film Studios.
Known For & Full Filmography2 Titles
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as друг Авдея
The year is 1962. Returning after an important mission, the polar aviation pilot Tagilov saves a young woman, Tatyana, who is stranded on a chipped ice floe. She is a doctor.
Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Self
Documentary about Anton Chekhov and his descendants in Moscow. Vera Tschechowa, who is the great-grandniece of the poet and writer, meets with family members, writers, and theater professionals. Past and present merge into a poetic journey of discovery into a country that, until then, had been little known in the realm of artistic sensibilities.