{{Short description|Ukrainian documentary film director (born 1963)}} {{Family name hatnote|Vsevolodovich|Mansky|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Expand Russian|topic=bio|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Vitaly Mansky | image = Vitaliy Manskiy 2010 Moscow.jpg | caption = 2010 | native_name = {{nobold|Виталий Манский}} | birth_name = Віталій Всеволодович Манський | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|12|2|df=y}} | birth_place = Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR | occupation = Filmmaker, producer | yearsactive = 1987–present | spouse = Natalya Manskaya | children = 2 | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = Russia<br/>Latvia<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.dw.com/ru/kinorezisser-vitalij-manskij-polucil-za-osobye-zaslugi-grazdanstvo-latvii/video-75230509 |title=Кинорежиссер Виталий Манский получил латвийское гражданство – DW – 18.12.2025 |language=ru |access-date=2025-12-19 |via=www.dw.com}}</ref> | alma_mater = Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography | awards = }} '''Vitaly Vsevolodovich Mansky''' ({{langx|uk|Віталій Всеволодович Манський}}, {{langx|lv|Vitālijs Manskis}}; born 2 December 1963 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20101028131840/http://rff4.academia-rossica.org/en/vitaly-mansky/ Vitaly Mansky]}} Russian Film Festival in London 2010. Retrieved 20 May 2011.</ref>) is a Ukraine-born Russian<ref>{{Cite web |title=Все переругались из-за фильма «Русские на войне». Его сняли на российской стороне фронта и показали в Венеции Разбираемся с экспертами «Медузы» — военными аналитиками и Антоном Долиным, — как относиться к этой картине |url=https://meduza.io/feature/2024/09/10/vse-pererugalis-iz-za-filma-russkie-na-voyne-ego-snyali-na-rossiyskoy-storone-fronta-i-pokazali-v-venetsii |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=Meduza |language=ru}}</ref> and Latvian documentary film director.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114650/http://www.sem40.ru/famous2/e1699.shtml Манский Виталий] (Archived in Archive.org)</ref> He is the founder of a festival of documentary movies, ArtDocFest<ref>[https://www.dw.com/en/russian-documentary-film-festival-fights-censorship-with-zapovednik/a-51627997 Russian documentary film festival fights censorship with 'Zapovednik'] by Deutsche Welle</ref> and has resided in Riga since 2014.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spriņģe |first1=Inga |last2=Jemberga |first2=Sanita |last3=Jaunalksne |first3=Ilze |url=https://en.rebaltica.lv/2015/02/putins-middle-class-is-fleeing-to-latvia/ |publisher=Re:Baltica |title=Putin's middle class is fleeing to Latvia |date=25 February 2015}}</ref> Artdocfest has since collaborated with the Riga International Film Festival.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.baltictimes.com/mansky___s_arrival_energises_riga_international_film_festival/ |work=The Baltic Times |title=Mansky's arrival energises Riga International Film Festival |date=4 November 2015}}</ref>
== Political Stances == [[File:Berlin Rally by Demokrati-JA in support of Ukraine asv2023-02 img04.jpg|thumb|Vitaly Mansky in February 2023, speaking at a Ukraine solidarity rally in Berlin]] In March 2014, Mansky signed an open letter in solidarity with Ukrainian filmmakers following the Russian annexation of Crimea.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Документалист Виталий Манский: "Мы вступили в эру новой инквизиции" |url=https://newprospect.ru/news/new-dk/dokumentalist-vitaliy-manskiy-my-vstupili-v-eru-novoy-inkvizitsii/ |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=newprospect.ru |language=ru}}</ref>
In 2018, he supported the European Film Academy's appeal in defense of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was imprisoned in Russia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-14 |title=European Film Academy : Free Oleg Sentsov |url=https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/Free-Oleg-Sentsov.465.0.html |access-date=2023-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614220015/https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/Free-Oleg-Sentsov.465.0.html |archive-date=2018-06-14 }}</ref>
In December 2020, Mansky went for a solitary manifestation outside the Federal Security Service building at the Lubyanka Square, holding men's underpants. The manifestation took place after the publication of opposition leader Alexei Navalny's conversation with his alleged poisoner.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Режиссера Манского задержали в Москве за пикет у ФСБ |url=https://www.rbc.ru/politics/22/12/2020/5fe1deaf9a7947f8ed7495cc |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=РБК |date=22 December 2020 |language=ru}}</ref> He was arrested for employing "visual means of propaganda and agitation".<ref>{{cite news |title=Caught with their pants down |url=https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/01/02/russia-menaces-alexei-navalny-after-he-exposed-its-agents-ineptitude |access-date=23 February 2026 |work=The Economist |date=2 January 2021 |page=23 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
In February 2022, Mansky spoke out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In April the same year, he expressed his anti-war views at a rally in Riga.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-23 |title=Видео ⟩ В Риге прошел антивоенный митинг русскоязычных Латвии. RUS TVNET побывал на мероприятии |url=https://rus.tvnet.lv/7506952/video-v-rige-proshel-antivoennyy-miting-russkoyazychnyh-latvii-rus-tvnet-pobyval-na-meropriyatii |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Общество |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Самое страшное утро в жизни Россия напала на Украину. Чтобы описать происходящее, не хватает слов. Вот что говорят об этом Земфира, Иван Дорн, Юрий Шевчук и другие |url=https://meduza.io/feature/2022/02/24/samoe-strashnoe-utro-v-zhizni |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Meduza |language=ru}}</ref> As a result of his views, the Russian Interior Ministry added him to their wanted list in September 2022 for slander, following a request by cinematographer Nikita Mikhalkov.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-07 |title=Виталия Манского объявили в розыск после жалобы Никиты Михалкова |url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-62817106 |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=BBC News Русская служба |language=ru}}</ref> On June 16, 2023, Russian Ministry of Justice included Mansky in its "foreign agents" list.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Минюст РФ объявил «иностранными агентами» экономиста Сергея Алексашенко, политика Льва Шлосберга и режиссера Виталия Манского |url=https://meduza.io/news/2023/06/16/minyust-rf-ob-yavil-inostrannymi-agentami-ekonomista-sergeya-aleksashenko-politika-lva-shlosberga-i-rezhissera-vitaliya-manskogo |access-date=2025-12-19 |website=Meduza |language=ru}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== [[File:Vitaly Mansky 2014 Pyongyang, North Korea.jpg|thumb|Mansky in North Korea filming ''Under the Sun'']] * ''Vladimir & Oksana in Love Country'' (2022, TV series) * ''Gorbachev. Heaven'' (2020) * Putin's Witnesses (Свидетели Путина, ''Putina liecinieki'', ''Svědkové Putinovi'') 2018 * ''{{ill|Rodnye|uk|Рідні (фільм, 2016)}}'' (Close Relations) 2016 * ''Under the Sun'' (В лучах солнца; ''V paprscích slunce'') 2015<ref>{{cite news|author1=Brian Todd|author2=Dugald McConnell|title=Propaganda film project backfires on North Korea|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/22/asia/north-korea-propoganda/|work=CNN World|date=June 23, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/culture/interview-vitaly-mansky-on-under-the-sun.a177951/ |publisher=Public Broadcasting of Latvia |title=Interview: Vitaly Mansky on "Under the Sun" |date=13 April 2016}}</ref> * ''Pipeline'' (Tруба; ''Die Trasse'') 2013 * ''Patria o Muerte'' / ''Motherland or Death'' 2011 * ''Gagarin's Pioneers'' (Our Motherland) 2006 * ''Anatomiya TATU'' (Anatomy of t.A.T.u.) 2003 * ''Etyudy o Lyubvi'' (1994) * ''Srezki Ocherednoy Voyny'' (1993) * ''Yevreyskoe Schaste'' (1991)
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons}} * [http://manski-doc.com/en/films/putinswitnesses Mansky's personal website] {{in lang|en|ru|lv}} * {{IMDb name|543882}}
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