Vilen Kalyuta

Vilen Kalyuta
Shevchenko National Prize laureate, MAFU
Вілен Олександрович Калюта
Born22 October 1930
Gulyaypole, Zaporozhye oblast, USSR (present-day Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine).
Died3 November 1999
Alma materVasylkiv colledge of National Aviation University
OccupationCinematographer
Works
As cameraman:

Vilen Aleksandrovich Kalyuta (Ukrainian: Вілен Олександрович Калюта; 22 October 1930 – 3 November 1999) was a Ukrainian cinematographer. Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize in 1999.[1]

He was born on 22 October 1930, in Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. Kalyuta worked on more than 50 movies during his 40-year career. Notable films by Vilen Kalyuta are White Bird with Black Mark, Flights in Dreams and Reality, The Legend of Princess Olga, Urga, Burnt by the Sun and the last film he worked on A Friend of the Deceased. Vilen Kalyuta died on 3 November 1999, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

References

  1. ^ Лауреати Національної премії [National Award Winners]. Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 June 2025.