Wilen Kaljuta

Vilen Aleksandrovich Kalyuta (Ukrainian: Вілен Олександрович Калюта ; 22 October 1930 – 3 November 1999) was a Ukrainian cinematographer.

He was born on 22 October 1930, in Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. Kalyuta worked on more than 50 movies during his 40-year career. Notable films by Vilen Kalyuta are White Bird with Black Mark, Flights in Dreams and Reality, The Legend of Princess Olga [ru; uk] , Urga, Burnt by the Sun and the last film he worked on A Friend of the Deceased. Vilen Kalyuta died on 3 November 1999, in Kyiv, Ukraine.