Viktor Merezhko

Viktor Ivanovich Merezhko (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Мере́жко; born 1937) is a Soviet, Russian screenwriter, film director, playwright, actor, writer, TV presenter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2014).[1]

Viktor Merezhko
Born
Viktor Ivanovich Merezhko

(1937-07-28) 28 July 1937
Rostov Oblast
NationalityUkrainian
Occupationdramatist, screenwriter, TV presenter, film director
Years active1967–present
AwardsUSSR State Prize (1987)

Biography

He was born on July 28, 1937.

In 1952, together with his family, he moved to the village of Russkaya Polyana near the city of Cherkasy (Ukraine). I learned Ukrainian lange and graduated from the Ukrainian school. I tried to enter the Kiev Polytechnic Institute at the Faculty of Cinematographers, but I could not stand the entrance exams. A year worked in the woods of a woodcutter, then went to work in Arkhangelsk.

In 1956 he went to Lviv, where he entered and graduated Ukrainian Academy of Printing.

In 1963 he sent his work to the contest in Moscow. In 1964-1968 he studied at VGIK (Alexey Speshnev's workshop, then Ilya Vaysfeld). Already in the second year of the VGIK the script of Viktor was shot by his first short film.

According to Viktor Merezhko's scripts, 50 films and 12 animated films were shot, among them such famous films as Family Relations, Flights in Dreams and Reality, You are waited by Citizen Nikanorova, A Lonely Woman Wants to Meet, Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs. He is known as a playwright,

In 1989-1994 Merezhko led the popular in the USSR program Kinopanorama.[2] Since 1994 to 2002 the host of the program My Cinema of TV channel TV-6 Moscow.[3][4]

Secretary of Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, Member of the Writers' Union of Russia, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1988).

From the very first of his works as screenwriter Viktor Merezhko has indicated his interest in the moral problems of modern society. In his works, the relationship of the characters and their social conflict determine the plot of the films.[5]

References
  1. Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 14 августа 2014 года № 568 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
  2. Виктор Мережко: самый богатый сценарист
  3. Виктор Мережко сайт persons.ru September 24, 2008
  4. Интервью Эхо Москвы
  5. Энциклопедический словарь Кино. СЭ 1986. Москва. стр 265
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