
Viktor Ivanov
Directing
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.
Known For

A satirical express train sets off on its way. The driver S. Mikhalkov gives a farewell beep ... On the first carriage an inscription - "Summer cottage". The following are 8 short stories ...
Big "Wick"

Based on the Ukrainian vaudeville by Mykhailo Starytskyi, the famous Ukrainian writer. The leading character, Svyryd Petrovych Holokhvosty has his own barbershop in town and a reputation of a dandy. Once, after losing everything he had at cards, he decides to remedy his financial situation by a profitable marriage. A rich but ugly girl named Pronia Sirko falls for the illustrious suitor’s courtship...
Chasing Two Hares

A vaudeville based on a love story. Young Bela hurries by taxi to her fiance, to whom she was engaged in early childhood. A landslide in the mountains delayed the car...
The Snow Wedding

The film is based on the story "Hunter's Smiles" by writer Ostap Vishnya. Once a year, it would seem, normal, even very respectable people are turning into children who have received a long-awaited toy, or to some kind of "barons of münchhausen". Famous singers, famous surgeons, pensioners, peaceful accountants - all fall into childhood: they store up with waders, dry gunpowder, clean hunting rifles. And from their conversations trembling takes: one tells how he hunted immediately after two bears, the second "sewers" he put like rabbits, the third one shot ten ducks "shot" ... This all means that the hunting season has come!
Good luck!

The story of the "Hutsul Robin Hood" Oleksa Dovbush, an 18th century Carpathian Mountains outlaw who's a popular figure of Ukrainian legend.
Oleksa Dovbush

The film tells the story of the life and customs of a Ukrainian village in the distant past. After a heavy drinking binge, the village elder, having lost track of the days, decides to drink every second day instead of every day. Angry that no one was tearing leaves off the calendar, he forbids the youth to gather in the evenings for festivities. But it id in the evening that Alyonushka and Timish's first date is to take place. The clever boys and girls decide to help the lovers and get the foreman drunk enough to make him forget about his ban.
Cheerful Frogscreamers

A romantic comedy about a young officers from army base.
The Keys of Skies

Herasym Kalytka, dreams of hundred thousand rubles to buy as much as possible land. For this purpose he decides to buy notes from the forger. But the forger palmed off to the Kalytka blank papaers instead of banknotes.
Hundred Thousands

A child actor runs away from his film set and embarks on a series of adventures around Kyiv.
Big Troubles for a Small Boy

Zoya dreams of a wealthy life, but a trip to Siberia changes her plans.
Restless

A comedy, based on the sometimes funny and sometimes sad adventures of Sergeant Lyalin. There were two reasons for traveling to the village of Zhuravlikha. The first was personal: he decided to look for a girl he really liked. And the second was a desire to bring girls to the construction of the beautiful bridge of Sinegorye, where after demobilization the platoon of Sergeant Lyalin, convinced that a city begins with a family, went in full force.
Seeing

Dima and Rita, along with the children from their group, run away from kindergarten in search of a "parrot dog." No one believes that a dog named Ralph can talk. While searching for Ralph and his owner, a circus performer, the children overcome many obstacles and have unforgettable adventures in the big city.
Hello Ralph!

Ostap, a young Ukrainian forester, travels to Tashkent to claim a house his aunt left him on Thirteen Poplars Street. There he meets Mastura, a local girl who, charmed by his genuine admiration, offers to show him the city’s hidden wonders. When Ostap departs, he leaves behind not just a house but the memory of a bond that transcends borders.
The Thirteen Poplars Street

The action takes place against the backdrop of a looming war. Soviet intelligence intercepts an order from the high command of Nazi Germany to cross the Soviet border.