Daniel Fyodorovich Sakhnenko (1875–1930) — was a Ukrainian filmmaker and director.

Early life and career

Sakhnenko was born near

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. He was a film mechanic and engineer as well as a filmmaker. He shot his first film in 1908, a documentary about the cholera epidemic in

, then known as

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. In 1911, Sakhnenko shot his first feature-length film -

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(Ukrainian: Запорозька січ) - in Лоцманська Кам'янка, a village south-east of Dnipro. This is considered the first full-length Ukrainian film. That year he also co-founded the first Ukrainian film company, Sakhnenko, Schetinin and Co. During

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, Sakhnenko shot propaganda films for the state, and during the

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, he was an army film operator. From 1921, he worked at the Dnipro branch of the

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, and from 1925 he worked in the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sakhnenko, Daniel 1875 births 1930 deaths Ukrainian documentary film directors