Dovzhenko: Full of Compromise

Director: Igor Ivanko

Country: Ukraine

Year of production: 2024

Duration: 86 min

Subject:

The citizen and the state
Human rights

Audience:

Activists / NGOs
international audiences

Dovzhenko: Full of Compromise" is an in-depth documentary portrait of one of the greatest film directors of the 20th century, Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The film follows his tumultuous journey, from his early days in cinema to creating iconic films that defined Ukrainian poetic cinema, while navigating the challenges of artistic integrity and political pressures in the Soviet era.

director

Igor Ivanko

Ukrainian documentary film director and producer, cinematographer of feature and documentary films. He is a member of the BABYLON'13 group of documentary filmmakers who covered the events of the Maidan and the Russian-Ukrainian war (from 2014 to the present).

He graduated from the Kyiv National I.K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Film and Television University. He has also participated in the film workshops Ex Oriente and Dok Incubator (from the Documentary Film Institute in the Czech Republic).