Vasyl Viter
Biography
Vasyl Petrovych Viter (born 1951, in Velykopolovetsk, Skvyra Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is the chairman of the VIATEL studio. Honored Artist of Ukraine. Associate professor of the Department of Film and Television Directing and Dramaturgy at the I. Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theater, Film, and Television. Member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. In 1981–1982, he worked as a director in the video film production department at the State Television and Radio Company of the Ukrainian SSR. He was one of the first directors in the USSR to start shooting feature films on video, namely the film "In the Meadow on an Old Sofa" based on the novel by E. Hutsalo. He worked as a director and production director at the Ukrainian television film studio Ukrtelevizija from 1982 to 1993. In 1994, he founded and headed the VIATEL studio, which produced about 120 films. Since 2013, he has been deputy chairman of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize Committee of Ukraine. He is a member of the expert commission on cinematography of the State Agency of Ukraine for Film. Since 1996, he has been working as a lecturer and artistic director of the television directing course at the Department of Television Directing of the Ivan Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television, and since 2025, at the Department of Film and Television Directing and Dramaturgy. From 2010 to 2025, he was head of the Department of Television Directing at the Ivan Karpenko-Karyi National University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television.
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Dlinnomuhin
Kostya Barbin and Ilya Shakhvorostov are sailors of a motor ship traveling along the Yenisei. They have been friends since childhood, but grew up different in their views on life and moral principles.
Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes • as Mykola Chumak
A miniseries about the terrible years of repression in Ukraine in the 1930s. Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Bahrianyi.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An ironic comedy based on the novel of the same name by Osyp Makovey. For all Ukrainians, Shevchenko is a poet and a prophet. But what would happen if the living Taras Shevchenko came to you and asked for your help? Would you find a place for him at your computer?
Movie - 1990, 2h 15m • as Hryhoriy
The TV series is devoted to the topic of the artist's responsibility for every word he writes. In the center of the plot is the wandering of an artist-journalist of a Kyiv newspaper. He faces a number of internal problems: how to get along in a big city, the existence of true love and finding the answer to the eternal question - "Who am I?" External events echo the psychological crisis of the main character. In search of himself, he travels to the villages of the Kherson region that were flooded to create reservoirs - somewhere under the water column is his parents' native village, a metaphor for Ukrainian culture and historical memory mutilated in the 20th century. The man's concerns are closely related to the surrounding world: the atmosphere of the film reproduces the confusion of the entire nation: "What will happen next, after communism and its ideology?" In the yard, everything points to the imminent collapse of the perestroika.