FILM DIRECTOR

Leonid Osyka

1940 - 2001

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Leonid Mikhailovich Osyka (Ukrainian: Леонід Михайлович Осика) (8 March 1940 in Kyiv – 16 September 2001 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian movie director, producer, and screen writer. Osyka was awarded the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize of Ukraine, which was established to honor outstanding contributions to the development of Ukrainian cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Osyka has received more than 23,216 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Leonid Osyka is the 1,205th most popular film director (down from 1,200th in 2019), the 834th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 718th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Leonid Osyka ranks 1,205 out of 2,041. Before him are Gerhard Lamprecht, Volodymyr Dakhno, Jack Conway, Denys de La Patellière, Férid Boughedir, and Christian de Chalonge. After him are Busby Berkeley, George Fitzmaurice, David Hand, Duncan Jones, Edmond Keosayan, and George Abbott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Leonid Osyka ranks 443. Before him are Pilar Miró, Slaven Zambata, Donna Mills, Donald Wuerl, Jerzy Kulej, and Ernő Solymosi. After him are Homa Darabi, Zoran Janković, Tim Severin, Wolfgang Clement, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, and Friedel Rausch. Among people deceased in 2001, Leonid Osyka ranks 251. Before him are Villy Sørensen, Oldřich Lajsek, Ashok Kumar, Dale Earnhardt, Lee Cronbach, and Pavel Sadyrin. After him are Arthur Geoffrey Walker, Arne Sucksdorff, Sara Ashurbeyli, Shidzue Katō, N. G. L. Hammond, and A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leonid Osyka ranks 834 out of 1,365. Before him are Andrzej Mostowski (1913), Lolita Milyavskaya (1963), Sviatoslav Shevchuk (1970), Antoni Malczewski (1793), Volodymyr Dakhno (1932), and Mykola Rudenko (1920). After him are Tatyana Prorochenko (1952), Maryna Viazovska (1984), Henry Roth (1906), Dmytro Yarosh (1971), Ani Lorak (1978), and Viktor Chanov (1959).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Leonid Osyka ranks 28. Before him are Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), Konstantin Lopushansky (1947), Roman Viktyuk (1936), Frederic Zelnik (1885), Vadim Abdrashitov (1945), and Volodymyr Dakhno (1932). After him are Jerzy Antczak (1929), Aleksandr Alov (1923), Lev Arnshtam (1905), Boris Sagal (1923), Vadim Perelman (1963), and Felix Sobolev (1931).

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Filmography

Zakhar Berkut
Director
This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.
Apr 3o 19724.9 / 10
The Stone Cross
Director
In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.
Mar 7o 19686.3 / 10
Love Awaits Those Who Return
Director
1941. The soldier, a young poet takes the wounded commander out of the battlefield. The commander dies and the soldier is wounded. He was a long way to test before he gets to the guerrilla group. Title in English is "Love Awaits Those Who Return," according to Joshua First in his book UKRAINIAN CINEMA.
Mar 11o 19685.8 / 10