Oles Sanin

Born: 1972-07-30

Oles Hennadiyovych Sanin (Ukrainian: Олесь Геннадійович Санін; born July 30, 1972, in Kamin-Kashyrskyi) is a Ukrainian film director, actor, cinematographer, producer, musician and sculptor. An Honored Artist of Ukraine (2014); he was also awarded the Alexander Dovzhenko Ukrainian State Award. Born in Kamin-Kashyrskyi in the Volyn Oblast. He graduated of the Ivan Karpenko-Kary National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kyiv in 1993 in the actor's class (tutor: Valentyna Zymniya) and finished the film directing course for feature films (tutor: Leonid Osyka) in 1998. He made his internships in the Netherlands and the United States. In the years 1994–2000 he worked as a film director, director of photography, director of the production in the feature and documentary films' section of the Ukrainian branch of the international organisation Internews Network (presently Internews). He produced several dozen documentaries (e.g. for such stations as Internews Network, Canal+, the Ukrainian TV channel 1+1, NTV, TNT, Polsat, DALAS studio, IKON, PRO Helvecia). He was the director of photography of several documentary films and directed a few documentary and feature short films.


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Mamay

as Middle brother
Released: 2003-02-19

Mamay draws on traditional Ukranian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story...

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Marrying Death

as uncredited
Released: 1992-01-01

End of the 1930s. The times of Stalin's terror. Lieutenant Scherbakov got the order to shoot...

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Assassination: An October Murder in Munich

as uncredited
Released: 1995-10-14

The film covers the period from 1947, when UPA troops broke with fights abroad, and to autumn of...

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