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Friends! On this day in 1932 was born Vadym Illienko, the prominent Ukrainian film director. He was an operator, who filmed such films as "Oleksa Dovbush", "For Two Hares", "Evening of Ivan Kupala", "The Holiday of Baked Potatoes" and others. In addition, Vadim Gerasimovich was a director, shot a number of great films, among them "In the blue sky I will plant the forest", "The last bunker" and others.

Vadim Gerasimovich was born in Novomoskovsk. His father was an engineer-builder, mother worked at home. Vadim was the first child in the family, and later two more brothers were born - Yuriy and Mikhail, who went along the way of their older brother and became prominent cinema masters.

Mother often remembered that Vadim was a creative child, at the age of 10 dreamed of playing the piano. There was no money for the instrument at home - so he painted a piano just on the windowsill. He stood by it and imagined how it could sound. Then the parents decided to buy a musical instrument and bought an accordion.

Illieneko studied at VGIK - parents for this reason moved to Moscow. Vadim wanted to shoot movies, and his dad fully supported him. He gave his son an inexpensive camera and said: "Take off only what you will see with your heart." After graduation, Vadim and his brothers returned to Kyiv - they wanted to create in their homeland.

When Yuri and Mikhail were born, Vadim took care of the younger ones. He supported their creative ideas. From 1955 Vadim Gerasimovich worked at the Kyiv Film Studio. Named after O. P. Dovzhenko. The family still lived poorly, so the cinema operator bought his brothers' gifts for his first royalties. Michael often gave paint and brushes to Michael. In one interview, a younger brother told - once a brother simply brought a bunch of money, gave him and said: "Spend it on paints." This gift he remembered for life.

Vadim Gerasimovich never asked for awards and honors, he was a happy man, because he was engaged in what he loved. He put his hand to the creation of immortal masterpieces of Ukrainian cinema. In recent years, Vadim Illienko has been ill. He was worried that he had no strength to continue to work. Brother Mikhail said that he got much worse because of the situation in Ukraine. Vadim Gerasimovich said that neither Chekhov, nor Tolstoy, nor Dostoevsky could save Russia. "One little man won the big ones", - summed up Illienko.

Vadim Gerasimovich died on the 8th of May 2015. But the films that he filmed continue to bring joy to their admirers. Vadim Illenko is an important figure in Ukrainian cinema, so watch your favorite movie from his work list today.