About director, screenwriter and writer Mykola Mashchenko.

He, Mykola Mashchenko, was like that - passionate on the set and elegant in relations with people… Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, writer, former chairman of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, People's Artist, CEO of Kyiv Film Studio. O. Dovzhenko, academician of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine Mykola Mashchenko passed away. But he left behind a lot of creative work - plays, books, movies. During his life, Mykola Mashchenko was awarded a good dozen high awards for the enrichment of the national cultural and artistic heritage. Among them is the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of Ukraine for the film "Ovid" in 1982.