Vitaly Mansky
Born: 1963-12-02 in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Known For: Directing
Biography
Vitaly Vsevolodovich Mansky (Russian: Вита́лий Все́володович Ма́нский, Ukrainian: Віталій Всеволодович Манський; born 2 December 1963 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a film and documentary maker of Jewish Ukrainian origin. His films have been screened at film festivals worldwide and he has received over 100 international awards. In 2007, he founded the International Festival of Creative Documentary Films Artdocfest. In 2014, he emigrated to Latvia. He is still being persecuted by Russian authorities for expressing his stance on civil rights. Mansky is the president of the IDFF Artdocfest/Riga and a member of the American Film Academy (Oscars).
Filmography
2026
- Time to the Target ... (Director)
2024
- Iron ... (Director)
2023
- Eastern Front ... (Director)
- 2020. On Love And Freedom ... (Director)
2021
- Gorbachev. Heaven ... (Writer)
2018
- Putin's Witnesses as Self - Narrator (voice) / (archive footage)
2016
- Close Relations ... (Director)
- The Choice ... (Producer)
2015
- Under the Sun ... (Director)
2014
- Book ... (Director)
- Beyond The Fear ... (Producer)
2013
- Pipeline ... (Director)
- Alexander Zhurbin: An Attempt at Self-Portrait ... (Producer)
- Eternal Flame ... (Director)
2011
- Iconoscope ... (Director)
- Motherland or Death ... (Director)
- 69 ... (Director)
2010
- Miner's Day ... (Producer)
2009
- Nikolina Gora. Epilogue ... (Director)
2008
- Virginity ... (Director)
- Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV ... (Director)
2006
- Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach ... (Screenplay)
- Generation ... (Director)
2005
- Bashlachev. The Flight of Death ... (Producer)
- Death of the Poet ... (Writer)
2004
- Space. Way Home ... (Director)
- T.A.T.U. In Underheaven ... (Creator)
- t.A.T.u. in the Middle Kingdom ... (Director)
- Gagarin’s Pioneers ... (Director)
2003
- Anatomy of t.A.T.u. ... (Director of Photography)
- Valentina Leontieva ... (Director)
- Clean Thursday ... (Producer)
2002
- Broadway. Black Sea ... (Director)
- Open Kremlin ... (Director)
- USSR - Canada. More Than Hockey ... (Creator)
2001
- Red Tsars. Presidents of Russia ... (Director)
- Mummies ... (Producer)
- Vertov Windows
- Gorbachev. After Empire ... (Director)
- Open Up, Police! ... (Director)
- Putin. Leap Year ... (Director)
- Yeltsin. Another Life ... (Director)
2000
- Unknown Putin ... (Screenplay)
- Russia. The Begining ... (Director)
1999
- Private Chronicles: Monologue ... (Director of Photography)
1995
- Bliss ... (Director)
1993
- Cuts of Another War ... (Director)
1992
- Lenin's Body ... (Writer)
1990
- Etudes About Love ... (Director)
- Jewish Happiness ... (Director)
1989
- Post ... (Director)
1988
- Park of Culture ... (Director)