Vladimir Makeranets

Vladimir Ilyich Makeranets (; 6 May 1947 – 20 February 2024) was a Soviet and Russian director of photography, producer and film director, Head of the Ural Department of the Russian Union of Filmmakers, and president of the Ural Guild of Cinematographers.

Biography Vladimir Makeranets was born in Sverdlovsk. He worked at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio from the time when he was 16, and graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1979. In 1980 he joined the Union of Filmmakers. As a director of photography, he worked on 56 films, including live action and documentary films. He directed five films.

Makeranets died in Yekaterinburg on 20 February 2024, at the age of 76.

Selected filmography 2007: The Golden Snake (Золотой полоз) — director, producer 2001: Privet, malysh! (Привет, малыш!, lit. "Hi baby!") — director, screenwriter 1995: Bench Tests (Стендовые испытания) — director of photography 1993: You Exist... (Ты есть) — director 1991: The Governor (Губернаторъ) — director 1990: V polose priboja (В полосе прибоя, lit. "In the Surf Zone") — director of photography 1989: My dear Siskin (Мой милый Чиж) — director 1988: Serafima Glyukina's Daily Routine and Holidays (Будни и праздники Серафимы Глюкиной) — director of photography 1986: Vremja svidanij (Время свиданий, lit. "Dating time") — director of photography 1985: In the Shooting Wilderness (В стреляющей глуши) — director of photography 1984: The Pavilion on the Links (Дом на дюнах, lit. "The House in the Dunes") — director of photography 1983: Semyon Dezhnev (Семён Дежнёв) — director of photography 1982: Those who Stay Alive (Тем, кто остаётся жить) — director of photography 1980: On the Bank of a Big River (На берегу большой реки) — director of photography