Vitali Yevgenievich Kanevsky (Russian: Вита́лий Евге́ньевич Кане́вский; born 4 September 1935) is a Soviet film director and screenwriter.

[3] In 1960 he entered the directing department of VGIK (Mikhail Romm's workshop).

Kanevsky served a prison sentence for rape from 1966 to 1974.

[4] Vitali currently lives in France, USA, and St.

[5] This article about a Soviet film director is a stub.