Viktor Ivchenko

Viktor Ivchenko studied at Kyiv National I. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Rayisa Nedashkivska is recorded as having studied under Viktor Ivchenko. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are socialist realism. Employment is recorded with Kyiv National I. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Distinctions recorded are Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

Ivchenko was born in Bohodukhiv, then in the Kharkiv Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He graduated from the Kharkiv Road-Construction College in 1933 and the Kyiv Theatre Institute in 1937. He worked as an actor and stage director at the Zankovetska Ukrainian Drama Theatre from 1937 to 1953, and from 1953 until his death was a film director at the Kyiv Feature Film Studio named after O. Dovzhenko (now Dovzhenko Film Studios). He taught at the Kyiv Theatre Institute in the 1960s–1970s. He was married (first) to Olha Nozhkina and later to actress Ninel Myshkova. Ivchenko died on 6 November 1972 in Kyiv.

• Marina’s Destiny (Sud’ba Mariny, 1953; co-dir. Isaak Shmaruk) — In Competition, 1954 Cannes Film Festival. • Nazar Stodolia (1955) • There Is Such a Fellow (1956) • E.A. – Extraordinary Accident (1958) • Ivanna (1959) • Forest Song (Lisova pisnia, 1961) — co-writer. • Hello, Hnat! (1962) • The Silver Coach (1963) • The Viper (Hadiuka, 1965) • The Tenth Step (1967) • Frost Was Falling (1969) • Way to the Heart (1970) • Sofia Hrushko (1972)