Leonid Osyka

Directing•Born March 8, 1940•Died September 16, 2001 (age 61)•Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Biography

Leonid Mikhailovich Osyka (Ukrainian: Леонід Михайлович Осика) (8 March 1940 in Kyiv – 16 September 2001 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian movie director, producer, and screen writer. Osyka was awarded the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize of Ukraine, which was established to honor outstanding contributions to the development of Ukrainian cinema.