
Person
Oles Sanin
Directing · Born 1972-07-30 · Kamin-Kashyrskyi, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Biography
Oles Hennadiyovych Sanin (Ukrainian: Олесь Геннадійович Санін; born July 30, 1972, in Kamin-Kashyrskyi) is a Ukrainian film director, actor, cinematographer, producer, musician and sculptor. An Honored Artist of Ukraine (2014); he was also awarded the Alexander Dovzhenko Ukrainian State Award. Born in Kamin-Kashyrskyi in the Volyn Oblast. He graduated of the Ivan Karpenko-Kary National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kyiv in 1993 in the actor's class (tutor: Valentyna Zymniya) and finished the film directing course for feature films (tutor: Leonid Osyka) in 1998. He made his internships in the Netherlands and the United States. In the years 1994–2000 he worked as a film director, director of photography, director of the production in the feature and documentary films' section of the Ukrainian branch of the international organisation Internews Network (presently Internews). He produced several dozen documentaries (e.g. for such stations as Internews Network, Canal+, the Ukrainian TV channel 1+1, NTV, TNT, Polsat, DALAS studio, IKON, PRO Helvecia). He was the director of photography of several documentary films and directed a few documentary and feature short films.
Known for

Assassination: An October Murder in Munich
1995

Anna
Screenplay

The Guide
Director

Dovbush
Director
A Sin
Director

Paper Heart
Director

Christmas, or How the Hutsuls Waited for the End of the World
Director
Day Seven
Director

Match
Second Unit Director

Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine
Director
Filmography
- 2023DovbushDirector
- 2019AnnaScreenplay
- 2017Paper HeartDirector
- 2017Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in UkraineDirector
- 2014The GuideDirector
- 2012MatchSecond Unit Director
- 2005Day SevenDirector
- 2003MamayMiddle brother
- 2001Christmas, or How the Hutsuls Waited for the End of the WorldDirector
- 1999A SinDirector
- 1995Assassination: An October Murder in Munich
- 1992Marrying Death
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