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. 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&amp;H Film Distribution and opened the first cinema of the Kinopalats chain in Kyiv. In the 2010s, Batruch's distribution company B&amp;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.