Viktor Ivanovich Merezhko

Russian director and screenwriter Viktor Ivanovich Merezhko was born on July 28, 1937 at the farm of Olginfeld, Alexandrovsky district of the Rostov region. His parents were servants and raised three more children. Because of the famine, the family moved several times and finally settled in the Ukrainian village of Russian Polyana near the city of Cherkasy. Victor Merezhko graduated from the Ukrainian Printing Institute in Lviv in 1961 and was distributed to the Hammer publishing house in his native more

Russian director and screenwriter Viktor Ivanovich Merezhko was born on July 28, 1937 at the farm of Olginfeld, Alexandrovsky district of the Rostov region. His parents were servants and raised three more children. Because of the famine, the family moved several times and finally settled in the Ukrainian village of Russian Polyana near the city of Cherkasy.

Victor Merezhko graduated from the Ukrainian Printing Institute in Lviv in 1961 and was distributed to the Hammer publishing house in his native Rostov region. Working there, he wrote scripts for the city amateur film studio, and he constantly dreamed about the script faculty of VGIK and about working in cinema. In 1964, Merezhko sent his works to the competition in VGIK and was enrolled for the first year in the workshop of Alexei Speschnev.

For three years after graduating from VGIK, Merezhko tried to break through at the film studio, but everywhere he was refused. Only with the assistance of Weisfeld and playwright Braginsky, Victor finally received an order from Lenfilm and wrote the script for the film. "Hello and goodbye" (1972)

After a successful start, films based on Merezhko’s scripts were shot one after another: “Tryn Grass” (1976), “Tryasina” (1977), “Citizen Nikanorova Waits for You” (1978), “Leaving – Going” (1978), Homeland (1981), “Flights in Dreams and Reality” (1982), “Sorry” (1986), “Lonely Woman Wants to Meet” (1986), “Under the Blue Sky” (1989), “Dog Feast” (1990), “Racket” (1992), “Ryaba Chicken” (1994), “Three Women and a Man” (1998). In addition to short and animated films, Merezhko wrote scripts for 46 films that were shot by eminent directors.

In addition to screenplays, Viktor Ivanovich also writes plays, and in some films he acted as an actor ("Racket", "Three Women and a Man", etc.). "Sorry" ).