Director,
Writer,
Cinematographer,
Producer,
Artistic director
Born 1963, USSR (Ukraine)
 
 
Vitali MANSKY
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Виталий МАНСКИЙ
Vitali MANSKI
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2023 - Eastern Front (Восточный фронт) [documentary, 98 mn]
2020 - Gorbachev. Heaven (Горбачев. Рай) [documentary, 100 mn]
2020 - About love and freedom (О любви и о свободе) [documentary, TV serial, 386 mn]
2018 - Putin's Witnesses (Свидетели Путина) [documentary, 102 mn]
2016 - Close Relations (Родные) [documentary, 113 mn]
2015 - Under the Sun (В лучах солнца) [documentary, 106 mn]
2014 - The book (Книга) [documentary, 86 mn]
2013 - Pipeline (Труба) [documentary, 117 mn]
2011 - Patria o muerte / Motherland or Death (Родина или смерть) [documentary, 99 mn]
2011 - Iconoscope (Иконоскоп) [documentary, 104 mn]
2009 - Nicolas's Hill (Николина Гора. Послесловие) [documentary, 93 mn]
2008 - Virginity (Девственность) [documentary, 70 mn]
2008 - Dalai Lama Dawn / Sunset (Далай Лама Рассвет / Закат) [documentary, 72 mn]
2005 - Our Motherland (Наша родина) [documentary, 100 mn]
2003 - TATU's Anatomy (Анатомия ТАТУ) [documentary, 60 mn]
2002 - Brodway. Black See (Бродвей. Черное море) [documentary, 86 mn]
2001 - Elcin. A Different Life (Ельцин. Другая жизнь) [documentary, 104 mn]
2001 - Putin. The Leap Year (Путин. Высокосный год) [documentary, 52 mn]
2000 - Gorbachov. After the Empire (Горбачёв. После империи) [documentary, 104 mn]
1999 - Chastnye khroniki. Monolog (Частные хроники. Монолог) [documentary, 86 mn]
1996 - Bliss (Благодать) [documentary, 50 mn]
1993 - Cuts Of Another War (Срезки очерелной войны) [documentary, 20 mn]
1992 - Lenin's Body (Тело Ленина) [documentary, 39 mn]
1990 - Jewish happiness (Еврейское счастье) [fiction, 50 mn]
1990 - Post (Пост) [documentary, 20 mn]
1990 - Etudes About Love (Этюды о любви) [documentary, 86 mn]
1988 - Boomerang (Бумеранг) [documentary, 30 mn]
 
Writer
2020 - Gorbachev. Heaven (Горбачев. Рай) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 100 mn]
2020 - About love and freedom (О любви и о свободе) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, TV serial, 386 mn]
2018 - Putin's Witnesses (Свидетели Путина) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 102 mn]
2016 - Close Relations (Родные) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 113 mn]
2015 - Under the Sun (В лучах солнца) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 106 mn]
2011 - Patria o muerte / Motherland or Death (Родина или смерть) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 99 mn]
2009 - Nicolas's Hill (Николина Гора. Послесловие) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 93 mn]
2008 - Dalai Lama Dawn / Sunset (Далай Лама Рассвет / Закат) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 72 mn]
2005 - Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach (Жар нежных. Дикий, дикий пляж!) from Aleksandr RASTORGUYEV [documentary, 125 mn]
2005 - Our Motherland (Наша родина) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 100 mn]
2005 - Tender's Heat. Wild Wild Beach. Full version (Дикий. Дикий пляж. Жар нежных. Полная версия) from Aleksandr RASTORGUYEV [documentary, 340 mn]
2002 - Brodway. Black See (Бродвей. Черное море) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 86 mn]
2001 - Elcin. A Different Life (Ельцин. Другая жизнь) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 104 mn]
1999 - Chastnye khroniki. Monolog (Частные хроники. Монолог) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 86 mn]
1996 - Bliss (Благодать) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 50 mn]
 
Cinematographer
2018 - Putin's Witnesses (Свидетели Путина) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 102 mn]
2011 - Patria o muerte / Motherland or Death (Родина или смерть) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 99 mn]
2005 - Our Motherland (Наша родина) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 100 mn]
2001 - Elcin. A Different Life (Ельцин. Другая жизнь) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 104 mn]
 
Producer
2010 - The Miner’s Day (День шахтера) from Andrey GRYAZEV [documentary, 56 mn]
2008 - Dalai Lama Dawn / Sunset (Далай Лама Рассвет / Закат) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 72 mn]
2005 - Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach (Жар нежных. Дикий, дикий пляж!) from Aleksandr RASTORGUYEV [documentary, 125 mn]
2005 - Tender's Heat. Wild Wild Beach. Full version (Дикий. Дикий пляж. Жар нежных. Полная версия) from Aleksandr RASTORGUYEV [documentary, 340 mn]
2003 - Clean Tuesday (Чистый четверг) from Aleksandr RASTORGUYEV [documentary, 46 mn]
1999 - Chastnye khroniki. Monolog (Частные хроники. Монолог) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 86 mn]
1996 - Bliss (Благодать) from Vitali MANSKY [documentary, 50 mn]
 
Artistic director
2000 - Net smerti dlya menya (Нет смерти для меня) from Renata LITVINOVA [documentary, 52 mn]
 
Sites : manski.ru/, IMDb, Chapaev.media

Author :

Awards :
"Silver dove" of Leipzig festival,
Award for best direction (Lokarno)
Prix court metrage vision du reel – Nyon
Golden Spire in San Francisco
Grand Prix of Huesca Film Festival
Laurel Awards, The National award of cinema critics and press “Beliy Slon” (“White Elephant”); he was four times nominated for “Nika”.
Putin's Witnesses :
First prize, FIPADOC, Biarritz (France), 2019
Under the Sun :
Event of the Year, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2017
Best documentary, "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2017
Pipeline :
Best directing, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Prize, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Patria o muerte / Motherland or Death :
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Diploma, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011
Virginity :
Best film, Programme "Art-Linia", International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2008
Best documentary, "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2008

Biography
VITALY MANSKIY was born in 1963 in Lvov. In the year 1982 he entered the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) (S.E. Medynskiy’s workroom). His first work in the world of cinematography appeared in 1989, and since that time he has shot more than 30 films. His works were presented at more than 400 international film festivals.

As of the year 1995 he has been popularizing documental films on the Television. Manskiy was the author and producer of the project “Reality cinema” that was on air from 1995 on the First Russian Channel, where one could see premières of the best world documental films. In the same year he became director of the Film Demonstration Service, and then the first General producer of the channel "REN - TV", on which hundreds of best documentary films from all over the world were shown for the first time. In 1999 he went to the "Russia" channel, where he became Head of Production and demonstration of documentary projects Service. Being a director, he released more than 300 films that were demonstrated on channels “Russia”, “First Channel”, “NTV”, “STS”, “Culture”, “7TV”. In 2000 Manskiy was the first one to institute the National Prize “Laurel”, and in 2006 he became Director General of this award that is handed for the best documental films; and then Manskiy became one of the founders of the guild of “Non-fiction cinema and television of Russia”.

Vitaly Manskiy is the Prize-winner of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Awards, of the medal of the Russian Rosaviakosmos “Golubaya Planeta” (Blue Planet); he is Academician of the Cinema Academy “NIKA”, the member of the Russian Cinema Academy “TEFI”, Academician of the Eurasian Academy of Cinema and Radio.
He is the Publisher of the oldest web-magazine on documental films "VERTOV.RU". He is the Author of the Reality Cinema Manifesto. He is General Producer of the National Prize “Lavrovaya Vetv” (Laurel Branch); he is President of the Moscow Documentary Films Festival "ARTDOKFEST".

Source : manski.ru/

Since 2014 he lives in Latvia.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
- Vitalii Manskii, Yevhen Tytarenko: Eastern Front (Shidnyi front, UKR, 2023) Jeremy HICKS, 2023, Kinokultura
- Vitaliy Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko: Eastern Front (2023) Nataliia ANDRIUSHCHENKO, 2023, Kinokultura
- BERLINALE 2023 Encounters. Critique : Eastern Front Vladan PETROVIC, 2022, cineuropa.org
- Частная жизнь исторического человека: Горбачев. Рай Виталия Манского [Film : Gorbatchev. En aparté, 2020, de Vitali MANSKI] Зара АБДУЛЛАЕВА, 2022, kinoart.ru
- Частная жизнь исторического человека: Горбачев. рай Виталия Манского [Gorbatchev. En aparté, 2020, de Vitali MANSKI] 2022, kinoart.ru
- Vitalii Manskii: Close Relations* (Ridni, 2016) Olga KIM, 2022, Kinokultura
- Gorbatchev : En aparté, mardi 17 août sur ARTE Jean-Marc VERDREL, 2021, coulisses-tv.fr
- Vitaly Mansky : la revanche du témoin Laura-Julie PERREAULT, 2021, lapresse.ca
- Горбачев. Рай — фильм-портрет первого президента СССР о власти, возрасте и любви , Anton DOLIN, 2020, meduza.io
- Putin’s Witnesses, dans les coulisses de l’opération “Successeur” Vincent PENNINCKX, 2020, lesuricate.org
- Critique : Gorbachev. Heaven Davide ABBATESCIANNI, 2020, cineuropa.org
- Documentaire L’insaisissable Gorbatchev [à propos du film Gorbatchev.Le Paradis de Vitali Manski] Daria BORISSOVA, 2020, lecourrierderussie.com
- Sous les rayons du soleil (В лучах солнца) [2015, de Vitali Manski] Les coulisses poisseuses de la Corée du Nord Emmanuel GRYNSZPAN, 2016, grincine.blogspot.com
- Sous les rayons du soleil, un film documentaire du Russe Vitaly Manski Muriel POMPONNE, 2016, rfi.fr
- Vitalii Manskii: Under the Sun (V luchakh solntsa, Russia, DPRK, Germany, Czech Republic, Latvia, 2015) Jeremy HICKS, 2016, Kinokultura
- Road-эпос , Yelena GRACHEVA, Алексей ВОСТРИКОВ, 2014, seance.ru
- Film Review: ‘Pipeline’ Alissa SIMON, 2013, variety.cim
- Les 11 meilleurs films russes de 2011 Maria FADEEVA, 2012, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Vitalii Manskii : Patria o muerte (Rodina ili smert'; 2011) , Erin ALPERT, 2012, kinokultura.com
- Vitalii Manskii : Patria o muerte (Rodina ili smert’, 2011) , John RILEY, 2012, kinokultura.com
- Виталий Манский: Я сделал некомфортное для просмотра кино , Larisa MALUKOVA, 2011, Novayagazeta.ru
- Прямая речь: фрагменты пресс-конференций на "Кинотавре" 2011, Искусство кино, 8
- Venceremos! Родина или смерть, режиссер Виталия Манского , Yelena STISHOVA, 2011, Искусство кино, 8
- Vitalii Manskii : Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV (Rassvet/Zakat. Dalai Lama XIV, 2009) , Jeremy HICKS, 2010, kinokultura.com
- Vitalii Manskii : Virginity (Devstvennost', 2008) , Irina LIUBARSKAIA, 2009, kinokultura.com