Vitaly Mansky
Biography
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).
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Movies (42)
Time to the Target
Director (Directing)
2025
Iron
Director (Directing)
2024
Eastern Front
Director (Directing)
2023
2020. On Love And Freedom
Director (Directing)
2023
Gorbachev. Heaven
Writer (Writing)
2021
Putin's Witnesses
as Self - Narrator (voice) / (archive footage)
2018
The Choice
Producer (Production)
2016
Close Relations
Director (Directing)
2016
Under the Sun
Writer (Writing)
2015
Beyond The Fear
Producer (Production)
2014
Book
Director (Directing)
2014
Alexander Zhurbin: An Attempt at Self-Portrait
Producer (Production)
2013
Eternal Flame
Director (Directing)
2013
Pipeline
Director (Directing)
2013
69
Director (Directing)
2011
Motherland or Death
Director (Directing)
2011
Iconoscope
Director (Directing)
2011
The Day of the Coal Miner
Producer (Production)
2010
Nikolina Gora. Epilogue
Director (Directing)
2009
Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV
Director (Directing)
2008
Virginity
Director (Directing)
2008
Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach
Producer (Production)
2006
Death of the Poet
Producer (Production)
2005
Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
Producer (Production)
2005
Space. Way Home
Director (Directing)
2004
Gagarin’s Pioneers
Director (Directing)
2004
Anatomy of t.A.T.u.
Director of Photography (Camera)
2003
Clean Thursday
Producer (Production)
2003
Valentina Leontieva
Director (Directing)
2003
Broadway. Black Sea
Director (Directing)
2002
Putin. Leap Year
Director (Directing)
2001
Yeltsin. Another Life
Director (Directing)
2001
Gorbachev. After Empire
Director (Directing)
2001
Vertov Windows
2001
Mummies
Producer (Production)
2001
Unknown Putin
Screenplay (Writing)
2000
Private Chronicles: Monologue
Director of Photography (Camera)
1999
Bliss
Director (Directing)
1995
Cuts of Another War
Director (Directing)
1993
Lenin's Body
Writer (Writing)
1992
Jewish Happiness
Director (Directing)
1990
Etudes About Love
Director (Directing)
1990
TV Shows (8)
Generation
Director (Directing)
2006
t.A.T.u. in the Middle Kingdom
Director (Directing)
2004
T.A.T.U. In Underheaven
Creator (Creator)
2004
Open Kremlin
Director (Directing)
2002
USSR - Canada. More Than Hockey
Creator (Creator)
2002
Open Up, Police!
Director (Directing)
2001
Red Tsars. Presidents of Russia
Director (Directing)
2001
Russia. The Begining
Director (Directing)
2000