Viktor Ivchenko

Viktor Illarionovich Ivchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Іларіонович Івченко) was a film director and writer in Soviet Ukraine.

Ivchenko was born in the city of Bohodukhiv, Kharkov Governorate, on October 9, 1912. In 1933 he graduated from the Kharkiv Road-Construction College and in 1937 - the Kiev Theater Institute. Ivchenko also was a play director of the Ukrainian Drama Theater of M.Zankovetska (1937–1953) and a film director of the Dovzhenko Film Studios (1953–1972).

Ivchenko was first married to Olga Nozhkina, later - Ninel Myshkova.

He wrote scripts for "Forest Song" (1961) and "Annychka" (1968).

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Second prize at the 2nd All-Union film festival in Kiev and the 3rd All-Union film festival in Minsk
• Shevchenko National Prize
• People's Artist of Ukraine (1960)

In 1953, Ivchenko and Isaak Shmaruk were nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival for the film "Marina's Destiny".