Bohdan Batruch
Bohdan Batruch (born on August 9, 1957, Biały Bir, Poland) is a Ukrainian film producer, distributor, and philanthropist. He comes from the Batrukh family, who were forcibly resettled to Poland in the 1940s.[1] Batruch studied at the Alexander Zelverowicz Theater Academy in Warsaw, where he graduated as a playwright, screenwriter, and theater critic. After graduating, Batruch worked with Hollywood film companies and Canadian film producer Yuri Rogovoy. In 1995, Batruch founded the film distribution company B&H Film Distribution and opened the first cinema of the Kinopalats chain in Kyiv.[2] In the 2010s, Batruch's distribution company B&H released full-length Ukrainian-language feature films in wide distribution, including Shadows of Unforgotten Ancestors (2013) and The Guide (2013).
Batruch is also a philanthropist and the son-in-law of Ukrainian-Canadian-Swiss economist Bohdan Hawrylyshyn. He lives in Kyiv, Warsaw, and Geneva.[3]
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- ↑ У Львові представили книгу про 400-літній український рід Батрухів Archived 2016-02-02 at the Wayback Machine — ZIK, 15 жовтня, 2014
- ↑ Богдан Батрух: «Українці можуть бачити відсотків 95 з того, що виходить в прокат у світі» — НСКУ, 09 січня 2016
- ↑ «Радянської культури вже нема. Російська не сприймається. А нова ледь-ледь насаджується» — Gazeta.ua, 11 квітня 2017