Draft:Rollan Serhiyenko

Rollan Petrovich Serhiyenko (Ukrainian: Роллан Петрович Сергієнко; Russian: Роллан Петрович Сергиенко; 1936–2020), also transcribed as Rollan Sergienko, was a Ukrainian film director.

Life
He was born on January 19, 1936 in Snovsk (Shchors), Chernihiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR., He was a disciple of Alexander Dovzhenko. He was known for the fiction film White Clouds (1968), on the collectivization of farms in Soviet Ukraine, and for his documentaries, among them The Bell of Chornobyl (1987) and Threshold (1990), both on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

White Clouds was heavily shortened by the authorities. Most of the references to a probable famine triggered by sending flour from the collective farms to city workers were cut out. But some of the references the Holodomor can still be seen in the film as we know it today.

He died on December 4, 2020, in Moscow, Russia.

Awards and recognitions

 * Order of Courage (May 2, 1996)
 * Honored Artist of Ukraine (August 20, 2010)
 * International Prize named after Nicholas Roerich in the nomination "Preservation of Cultural Values and Peacekeeping" (2008)


 * Shevchenko National Prize for his the films "Open Yourself", "Taras", "In Front of the Icon" (1991)

Filmography

 * Объяснение в любви (Obyasnenie v lyubvi, Declaration of Love, 1966)
 * Білі хмари (Belye Tuchi, White Clouds, 1968)
 * Nikolai Rerih (1976)
 * Відкрий себе (Vidkryi sebe, Discover Yourself, 1979) (short film)
 * Schaste Nikifora Bubnova (The Happiness of Nikifor Bubnov, 1983)
 * Колокол Чернобыля (Kolokol Chernobylya, The Bell of Chornobyl, 1987)
 * Порог (Porog, Threshold, 1990)
 * Чорнобиль. Тризна (Chornobyl: Funeral Feast, 1993)
 * Друге освідчення в любові (The Second Declaration of Love, 1999)