Borys Ivchenko
Borys Ivchenko (1941–1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet filmmaker whose career was spent at the Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. Born in Zaporizhzhia as the son of fellow director Viktor Ivchenko, he graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1966 and worked across both acting and direction. He is best remembered for the Carpathian war romance Annychka (1968) and for The Lost Letter (1972), a musical tragicomedy adapted from Gogol's tale from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, starring Ivan Mykolaychuk. The Lost Letter was banned by Soviet censors and only released to general audiences in 1983; it later won the Golden Pagoda Award at the Bangkok film festival. He died in 1990, just as Ukrainian cinema was emerging from Soviet control.