Ivan Dykhovichny

{{short description|Russian film director}}

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{{Infobox person

| image = Ivan_Dykhovichny.jpg

| name = Ivan Dykhovichny

| birth_date = {{birth date|1947|10|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|9|27|1947|10|16|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

| occupation = Film director
Screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1970—2009

}}

Ivan Vladimirovich Dykhovichny (Russian: Иван Владимирович Дыховичный, 16 October 1947 – 27 September 2009){{cite web |url=http://lenta.ru/news/2009/09/27/dykhovichny/ |title=Скончался режиссер Иван Дыховичный |access-date=29 September 2009|work=lenta.ru}} was a Russian film director and screenwriter.{{cite book|title=The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema|page=1937|author=Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy, Dina Iordanova|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=978-1838718497|date=2019}}

He directed ten films between 1984 and 2009. His film Music for December was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3417/year/1995.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Music for December |access-date=6 September 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}

His father Vladimir Abramovich Dykhovichny (1911–1963) was a well-known Soviet song writer, mother Alexandra Iosifovna Sinani was a ballerina. Dykhovichny was a close friend of Vladimir Vysotsky, who dedicated a long poem to him.