THE UNIQUE LIFE PATH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY OF UKRAINIAN DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR O.M. SHOPIN
THE UNIQUE LIFE PATH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY OF UKRAINIAN DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR O.M. SHOPIN

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of work is to study and analyze the life and creative path of the Ukrainian documental film director Oleksiy Mykhailovych Shopin. Research methodology consists in application of methods of personology, theory of personality and historical-biographic method. The marked methodological approaches allow collecting and investigating unknown and not popular facts from the life and creative activity of a film director Shopin. The scientific novelty of work is predefined by the necessity of study of not popular pages of history of Ukrainian cinema and its figures, which for one reason or another remained out of eyeshot of home art critics. Conclusions. Summerizing the above it can be noted that the scientific tasks have been fulfilled: the life and creative path of the Ukrainian director of documental films O.M. Shopin was investigated; his studies at the Film director’s Laboratory of Oleksandr Dovzhenko in Kyiv Film Factory were mentioned; the reasons for leaving the Film director’s Laboratory were analyzed; the situation with the pre-war and post-war life of O.M. Shopin and his return to the cinema was described; his creative activity in Ukrainian cinema as the documentary director at the Kyiv Film Studio of documental films "Ukrkinokhronika" was restored.

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