Stepan Shkurat
Also Known As: Шкурат Степан Йосипович
Biography: Stepan Yosypovych Shkurat was a Ukrainian Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR (1935). People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1971).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kobeliaky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]
Birthday: January 08, 1886
Deathday: February 26, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Downpour
Overview: The lost film about the peasant rebellion of the 18th century in Ukraine, led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta. The history of the haydamak movement became a trigger for authors to have experiments in the field of film language: shooting against the background of black velvet, focus on the static character of the picture, the sculptural nature of composition mise-en-scène solutions, replacement of dramatic collisions with cinema engravings depicting the historical past.
Genres: History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1929-04-18
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Earth
Overview: Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries "on kulak fields". However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1930-04-08
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Fata Morgana
Overview: Based on the Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi’s novel. At the distillery farmers begin to strike. Local rich men without punitive detachment begin reprisals from rebels. Punitive detachment of dragoons, who called from the city, only completes the massacre.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1931-01-01
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Zaporozhets Za Dunayem
Overview: Adapted from the opera written by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Natalka Poltavka
Overview: This film is the first adaptation of an operetta written by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. It follows the trials and tribulations of Natalka and Peter (Petro). The sweethearts planned to get married; however, Natalka's father does not approve of the marriage because Petro was not affluent enough to keep Natalka in the manner he thought that she should be kept. Petro goes off to earn the required fortune.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1936-12-24
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May Night
Overview: By Nikolai Gogol's "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden". Son of a stubborn mayor can not get his father's agreement to marry an ordinary peasant girl. Unexpectedly he gets the help from an "evil force"
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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A Girl from the Lighthouse
Overview: On a small island is a lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper, the old boatswain Yemelyan Leleka, lives here with his wife and daughter. The boat that delivers supplies is the only guest from the big world. Over time, the girl feels romantic feelings for the boat captain - Igor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Ukrainian Rhapsody
Overview: Singer Oksana has lost her beloved in the war. Everyone thinks he perished, but actually he was taken prisoner, then ran away, hid, fell into American hands, and… Finally, he returns to his village, and meets Oksana. —Yerevan International Film Festival
Genres: Drama Romance War Music
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1961-09-25
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Night Raids
Overview: A peasant visits the DneproGES construction. Agitprop film about industrialisation and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1931-03-05
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Chapayev
Overview: An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-11-07
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Ivan
Overview: After the critical lambasting of his masterpiece Earth, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs. Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life, disrupted by the beat of looming industrialisation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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The Red Village
Overview: The movie's opening sequence takes place in 1921, towards the end of Russia's civil war, as the Red Army are vanquishing the last Menshevik forces of the White Guard along the western frontier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-04-08
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Aerograd
Overview: Aerograd is a 1935 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Olexander Dovzhenko, Mosfilm-VUFKU coproduction. It is a futuristic adventure story set in the Soviet Far East. Considered one of two sound masterpieces by Dovzhenko, the other being "Ivan".
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-11-06
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Guerrilla Brigade
Overview: Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of the Ukraine in 1918 during World War 1, and made as an example of the guerrilla warfare and fierce spirit in which Ukrainian peasants were again resisting Teuton onslaughts in 1939. Highlights a small band of guerrillas and their battles using scythes, shotguns and, often, just clubs against the Kaiser's army in the Ukrainian forests.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-07-29
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Звёзды на крыльях
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-07-19
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The Loose Woman
Overview: Khrystia, a peasant woman from a provincial village, decided to leave for the city in search of a better life. But, having not found there either a better life or happiness, she perishes ...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Kubans
Overview: From the life of one of the leading Kuban horse breeding collective farms. Veterinarian Mitrich, a disguised enemy who follows all the instructions of yesaul Soroka, sets about the main task - to destroy the entire collective farm herd. But the criminals will be detained on time, and in the autumn the collective farm will see off young Cossacks to the Red Army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Viy
Overview: A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-27
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Shine, My Star
Overview: A talented craftsman Andrei Panchenko has been appointed head of a large mine. He is full of hope and happy, because next to him is his beloved, charming and reliable Tamara. But not everything goes well for him at work, and a chance meeting with his childhood friend, the lively and cocky Nelka, completely turned his head. The young guy's warm heart is torn between love and duty, and soon Andrei finds himself at a serious crossroads in life...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1958-04-14
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Friendship
Overview: The film vividly tells us about the socialist competition between the Georgian and Ukrainian Kolmeurnei, which will grow into a cordial friendship and rise through hard work. In this solemn situation, the marriage of a Georgian young man and a Ukrainian girl, who have liked each other for a long time, is also celebrated.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Maybe Tomorrow
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Genres: War
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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