Vitaly Mansky

Known for: Directing
Born: December 2, 1963, Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]
Movies: 48

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).

Best-Known Movies

7.2

Under the Sun

2015

6.3

Putin's Witnesses

2018

7.2

Close Relations

2016

7.8

Gorbachev. Heaven

2021

4.8

Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach

2006

5.0

Virginity

2008

5.1

Pipeline

2013

5.7

Clean Thursday

2003

5.5

Anatomy of t.A.T.u.

2003

6.5

Motherland or Death

2011

Filmography

2018	Putin's Witnesses	Self - Narrator (voice) / (archive footage)
2001	Vertov Windows

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	Time to the Target	Director, Writer
2024	Iron	Director, Writer
2023	Eastern Front	Director, Writer
2023	2020. On Love And Freedom	Director, Writer
2021	Gorbachev. Heaven	Writer, Director
2018	Putin's Witnesses	Director, Writer
2016	The Choice	Producer
2016	Close Relations	Director, Writer
2015	Under the Sun	Director, Writer
2014	Beyond The Fear	Producer
2014	Book	Director
2013	Alexander Zhurbin: An Attempt at Self-Portrait	Producer
2013	Eternal Flame	Director
2013	Pipeline	Director, Screenplay, Producer
2011	69	Director
2011	Motherland or Death	Director
2011	Iconoscope	Director
2010	Miner's Day	Producer
2009	Nikolina Gora. Epilogue	Director
2008	Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV	Director
2008	Virginity	Director
2006	Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach	Screenplay, Producer
2005	Death of the Poet	Writer, Producer
2005	Bashlachev. The Flight of Death	Producer
2004	Space. Way Home	Director
2004	Gagarin’s Pioneers	Director
2003	Anatomy of t.A.T.u.	Director
2003	Clean Thursday	Producer
2003	Valentina Leontieva	Director
2002	Broadway. Black Sea	Director
2001	Putin. Leap Year	Director
2001	Yeltsin. Another Life	Director
2001	Gorbachev. After Empire	Director
2001	Vertov Windows	Writer, Director
2001	Mummies	Producer
2000	Unknown Putin	Screenplay
1999	Private Chronicles: Monologue	Director
1995	Bliss	Director
1993	Cuts of Another War	Director
1992	Lenin's Body	Writer, Director
1990	Jewish Happiness	Director
1990	Etudes About Love	Director
1989	Post	Director
1988	Park of Culture	Director
1987	Bumerang	Director
1987	Dogs	Director

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