Leonid Anichkin

Directing

Leonid Anichkin

Born — Died

1937-06-05 — 2009-12-07

Place of birth

Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Leonid Anatoliiovych Anichkin was a Soviet and Ukrainian documentary filmmaker. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine in 2008.

Known for

Behind the camera

How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding poster
7.5

Tur regrets being single until he meets a charming maiden to whom he promises a new pair of boots. He gets trapped at a witch’s sabbath hosted by the devil, who promises him a pair of boots in exchange for his soul.

How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding

1984

Taras Shevchenko. Legacy poster
NR

About the fate of the great poet's legacy, which was collected and preserved by his friends and is now kept at the Taras Shevchenko State Museum in Kyiv.

Taras Shevchenko. Legacy

1995

Taras Shevchenko. Legacy poster
NR

About the fate of the great poet's legacy, which was collected and preserved by his friends and is now kept at the Taras Shevchenko State Museum in Kyiv.

Taras Shevchenko. Legacy

1995

My Address is Solovki: Why Translate Virgil? poster
NR

Mykola Zerov was another prisoner of the Solovki camps. He was an outstanding Ukrainian poet, an excellent translator of ancient works, and a scholar of philology. Like others, he was destroyed by the repressive machine on Solovki.

My Address is Solovki: Why Translate Virgil?

1992

Dray-Khmara. Last Pages poster
NR

A film about Ukrainian poet, literary scholar, translator of the Executed Renaissance era Mykhailo Dray-Khmara and his exile (based on his daughter's account).

Dray-Khmara. Last Pages

1991

My Address is Solovki: The Burden of Silence poster
NR

The events of 1935–36 sent scientists, cultural figures, and Comintern workers to Solovki. Instead of a realm of free labor, there were prisons and camps; instead of blue socialism, there was the tyranny of petty Macbeths at the bottom of the camp hierarchy. This is a short documentary about Mykola Kulish, a Ukrainian writer.

My Address is Solovki: The Burden of Silence

1991

The Enchanted Wheel of Life poster
NR

The original artist Oleksandr Semernya never studied painting, but has been drawing for as long as he can remember.

The Enchanted Wheel of Life

1988

My Address is Solovki: Don't Hit a Woman, Even with a Flower poster
NR

The trials and tribulations of the wives and daughters of repressed "counterrevolutionaries" who shared the fate of their relatives in the Solovki camps.

My Address is Solovki: Don't Hit a Woman, Even with a Flower

1992

My Address is Solovki: The Trap poster
NR

The events of 1935–36 sent scientists, cultural figures, and Comintern workers to Solovki. Instead of a realm of free labor, there were prisons and camps; instead of blue socialism, there was the tyranny of petty Macbeths at the bottom of the camp hierarchy. This is a short documentary about Les Kurbas, a Ukrainian playwright.

My Address is Solovki: The Trap

1991

Taras Shevchenko. Hopes poster
NR

Fate did not spare him trials and tribulations. It is impossible to imagine a more shameful punishment than being deprived of the right to write and paint, than years of exile as a soldier in the Orenburg Corps. However, military service did not destroy Taras's faith in God and people.

Taras Shevchenko. Hopes

1996

Taras Shevchenko. Hopes poster
NR

Fate did not spare him trials and tribulations. It is impossible to imagine a more shameful punishment than being deprived of the right to write and paint, than years of exile as a soldier in the Orenburg Corps. However, military service did not destroy Taras's faith in God and people.

Taras Shevchenko. Hopes

1996