Nikolai Gnatovich Litus (
Ukrainian
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: Літус Микола Гнатович; 15 January 1925 – 21 February 2022) was a Ukrainian film director. He was a
Merited Artist of Ukraine
Merited (Performing) Artist of Ukraine (also translated as Honored (Performing) Artist of Ukraine, uk, Заслужений артист України) is a state honorary title of decoration awarded by the Ukrainian SSR and later Ukraine for o ...
.
Life and career
Born in
Tsybuliv
Tsybuliv () is an urban-type settlement in Uman Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. It is located in Monastyryshche urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine, the administration of which is located in the town of Monastyryshche
Monas ...
, a village in the
Uman Raion
Uman Raion ( uk, Уманський район, translit.: ''Umans'kyi raion'') is a raion (district) in the west of Cherkasy Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Uman. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as p ...
district, after graduating from the
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
Infantry School he fought in the
Eastern Front of World War II.
After the war he graduated in history at the Kirov Pedagogical Institute (today Vyatka State University), and later studied directing at the
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning
''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...
and worked as an assistant of
Alexander Zarkhi
Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi (russian: Александр Григорьевич Зархи; 18 February 1908 – 27 January 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Hero of Socialist ...
.
The feature film debut he co-directed with Shamsi Kiamov, ''Moi Drug Navrusov'' ("My Friend Navrusov") was censored and never screened because of its criticism of Soviet bureaucracy. He later directed documentaries and some popular films for
Dovzhenko Film Studios
The Dovzhenko Film Studios ( uk, Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка, translit. ''Natsional'na kinostudiya khudozhnikh filmiv imeni O. Dovzhenka'') is a former Soviet film ...
, notably the 1963 comedy ''
Queen of the Gas Station
Queen of the Gas Station (russian: Королева бензоколонки, Koroleva benzkolonki) is a 1963 Soviet comedy film directed by Olexiy Myshurin and Nikolai Litus. The events of the movie revolve around a gas station on a highway bet ...
''.
Beyond his cinema activity, between 1968 and 1983 Litus was lecturer at the
.
Litus died in
Kirovohrad Oblast
Kirovohrad Oblast ( uk, Кіровоградська область, translit=Kirovohradska oblast; also referred to as #Nomenclature, Kirovohradschyna — uk, Кіровоградщина) is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (prov ...
on 21 February 2022, at the age of 97.
References
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1925 births
2022 deaths
Soviet film directors
Ukrainian film directors
People from Cherkasy Oblast
Soviet military personnel of World War II from Ukraine
Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
Academic staff of Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University
Recipients of the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine
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