Dmitriy Kapka
Also Known As: Dmytro Kapka, Д. Капка, Dmitri Leontjewitsch Kapka
Biography: Participated in the Civil War (1918-1921), worked as ambassador of the Ukrainian SSR in Poland (until 1924). In 1923 he graduated from the screen department of the Higher Courses of Cinema in Warsaw. Played at the Kiev theater under the direction of P.Saksaganskiy (1917). Worked in cinema since 1923.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Birthday: November 07, 1898
Deathday: October 25, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Magic Night
Overview: It was a long time ago, when there was still a bondhold in Ukraine. Life was hard for the common people then... But in the evenings, the village boys with the girls went out into the sleeping streets, and a song began to sound, and the vechornytsi rushed through the village, cheerful, mischievous.
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Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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Mykola Dzheria
Overview: Freedom-loving Mykola Dzheria goes away from the village because of poverty and villainage. He leaves his senior parents, his young wife Nemydora and escapes to the sugar-mill. His friend dies because of slave work. Mykola goes to the Dniester reed beds. Working with other escapees, Mykola falls in love with the daughter of the cooperative leader. The girl also likes the handsome guy. However, their fate is decided by the landlord’s servants; they set the reed beds on fire, shackle Mykola and take him to Verbivka. The film was released on 01 April 1927 in Kyiv and on 24 May 1928 in Moscow. The film is lost.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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Bread
Overview: Ukrainian agitprop film from 1929 that was banned and long forgotten until its rediscovery in the 1970s, imaginatively shot by the gifted cameraman Oleksii Pankratiev, whose panoramic long shots feature dynamic compositions. The background, barren field and bare sky, raise the agricultural subject matter to the level of an epic poem. Using innovative editing, Shpykovskyi transformed an incredibly simple plot into an avant-garde work. Created the same year as Earth (Zemlya), the film forms a paradoxically conceptual, ideological, and aesthetic pair with Dovzhenko’s movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1930-03-04
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The Diplomatic Pouch
Overview: The film's plot is based on the real murder of the Soviet diplomatic courier Theodor Nette abroad. The pouch of the Soviet diplomat, which is stolen by British spies, is taken away by the sailors of a ship sailing to Leningrad who deliver it to the authorities. The intelligence agents make every effort to retrieve the bag.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1927-02-28
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The Self-Seeker
Overview: An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he goes on a journey with a camel, which somehow had strayed to his house. In the midway he is stopped by the Red Army: the camel gets confiscated for the needs of revolution, and Apollon appears in the disposal of the Bolshevik commissar. Zealous and cunning, Apollon quickly takes lead of the local commissariat. But the ingrained thirst for a profit once again puts his life in danger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1929-11-11
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Bloody Dawn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1957-01-27
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The Lost Letter
Overview: Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy History Adventure
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1972-12-25
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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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Навздогін за долею
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1927-07-11
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Vasya, the Reformer
Overview: Lost film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (his first film) and Favst Lopatynskyi. It is a satire of the NEP period. Vasia, the son of a factory’s worker, is attracted by the romance of adventures. And he goes to look for them. He saves a drowning drunkard who tries to beat him. Vasia escapes from him in a vehicle parked on the shore. However, the vehicle belongs to a superintendent who, when he does not find it, stages its theft. Meanwhile, Vasia exposes priests in the church. As a result, the church is turned into a cinema, and the priest becomes a cinema technician. And finally, Vasia’s last deed is catching a criminal at home and denouncing him to the militia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1926-01-02
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Kiev Resident
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1958-11-03
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Spring Comes Soon
Overview: The old peasant Minago Iremadze and his wife miss their children who live in the city. The older brother married a city girl, the younger studies there. Minago decides to bring them back home. He goes to the city and tells everything to his sons. The brothers understand their dad well but cannot abandon the city life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1969-02-24
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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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Сколько лет, сколько зим!
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-10-24
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Костёр бессмертия
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-08-22
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The Military Secret
Overview: Natka, who dreams of becoming a captain, is sent to pioneer work. She takes her first assignment very seriously - and receives a trip to Crimea. In Artek, Natka is asked to replace a sick pioneer leader. The girl agrees. Soon, during the construction of a water pipeline, a dam breaks and a struggle for water begins. Engineer Ganin, who came on vacation with his little son Alka, also joins this fight. In the ruins of the old fortress, Vladik and Tolik find dynamite. To track down their enemies, the guys hide explosives and swear not to reveal their “military secrets”...
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-05-18
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Overtaking the Wind
Overview: About the harsh and courageous work of fishermen, about love for the sea.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-08-03
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Tavria
Overview: 1914, Imperial Russia. A group of Ukrainian peasants searching for a better life in the Taurida steppe end up working at the landholding of the aristocratic Falz-Fein family. Friends Vustya and Hanna are courted by a revolutionary and the landowner's son, both rising their hopes and dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Girl's Years
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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The Servant Woman
Overview: The young girl made a mistake. As a result, she has son from a soldier, who immediately broke up with her. She gives away her child to a wealthy family, but years later realizes that the child is the most valuable thing in her life. To be with him, poor woman applies for a job to this family.
Genres: Music
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1964-03-09
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Start a Fight
Overview: A story about a relations between two friends who compete both in life and on the fencing track.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-08-04
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Время-не-ждет
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-01-15
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Friends - Comrades
Overview: Sixth-graders Oleg, Vasya and Vitya go with their pioneer detachment on a hike across the Crimea.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-03-24
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The Tale of Malchish-Kibalchish
Overview: The story is about a brave boy who never takes off his hat.
Genres: Adventure War Drama Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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Love's Berries
Overview: Jean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of the cumbersome 'article'. And, take his word for it, all the ways are good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1926-04-28
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A Great Road Ahead
Overview: About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-04-27
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Journey into April
Overview: A journalism student Kostika is travelling, by river steamer, to the place of his internship in the village of Lower Lazureny, but by mistake he goes ashore at Upper Lazureny. While Kostika is trying to get out of the village and get to his destination, wonderful adventures happen.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-04-06
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Lyuboy tsenoy
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Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-09-12
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Nesterka
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Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-09-05
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Housewarming
Overview: The story of the life of the Podolsk village and what the inhabitants of the village had to go through during the years of Soviet power. Through the fate of the heroes, the film tells about the events of collectivization in the village, where for centuries, everyone used to work only on his own farm, about the war years, when many quiet people showed miracles of heroism, and universal favorites became nazi puppets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-09-23
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Fifth Ocean
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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Руины стреляют...
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Genres: War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-09-13
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Свет в окне
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-03-06
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Rich Bride
Overview: A comedy about the happy life of Ukrainian collective farmers. Harvesting in one of the Ukrainian collective farms. The tractor driver Pavlo and the best collective farmer Marinka work perfectly. They love each other. I like not only Paul. The official and adventurer Kovynko has long been yearning for the Marinka and building all sorts of intrigues to the Komsomol members.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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The Italian Woman
Overview: On the participation of Komsomol members in the restoration of the coal industry of Donbass.
Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1931-12-14
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Quiet Flows the Don
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-10-26
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Forest People
Overview: The first years of industrialisation. Disguised as a hunter, an ex-White officer Poloz, who is connected to the international intelligence, is hiding in the forest where the construction of a new power station has begun. An intern making photos of the buildings suddenly notices Poloz. Frightened to be exposed, Poloz kills the guy and makes a cut in the base of the scaffolding of the main building of the power station. In face of a failure, counting on his ex-wife Katia’s help, Poloz kidnaps a 10-year-old boy. Hrai, an engineer and the father of the kidnapped boy, finds Poloz’s hiding place in the forest, and his assistant Varrava shoots the White officer at that very moment when he tries to explode the main building of the power station. The film is lost.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Loneliness
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-03
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How the Steel Was Tempered
Overview: This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1942-09-28
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In the Long Voyage
Overview: The Vityaz sailing corvette, whose team has to endure severe trials, goes on a flight. Relations between the sailors and the stupid and soulless baron von Berg replacing the senior officer did not develop. By his behavior, he causes the hatred of the whole crew, which develops into a riot when he gives the order to drown the darling of the whole team - a little puppy. All this, as well as a storm in the Pacific Ocean and other dangerous adventures, rally people even more and make them even stronger and more courageous.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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War Under the Roofs
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Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Sons Go Into Battle
Overview: The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Tolya and Aleksey, the sons of Anna Korzun, became partisans and fought against the invaders in the BSSR.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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Oktyabryuhov and Dekabryuhov
Overview: The bourgeois wedding of Dekabryukhova is interrupted by the machine-gun fire of revolution. He flees abroad, leaving his wife. Oktyabryukhov stays and adapts to the new life. At the end of the picture there is an attempt at universal reconciliation and the poet's tormenting theme "three-way love". Dekabryuhov returns to his homeland. His wife is already married to Oktyabryukhov. Having learned about it, Dekabryukhov tries to leave, but the newlyweds force him to stay.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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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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Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
Overview: The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Three Hundred Years Ago...
Overview: In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Polish gentry rule. About the events of the National Liberation War in Ukraine under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who with a firm hand led the insurgent masses to an alliance with Russia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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The Little Shoes
Overview: To justify the fantastic adventures of the blacksmith Vakula, the authors of the film “simplify” Gogol’s plot: Vakula, having drunk too much at Patsiuk’s place, falls asleep. And he sees this dream where the devil takes him to the palace of Catherine II in Saint-Petersburg; and there Vakula takes off the little shoes of the Russian empress to give them to his fiancée Oksana. And, really, drunk Vakula takes off the shoes while sleeping… but from Patsiuk. Later, when Vakula unwraps the package with the “royal slippers” in front of Oksana, he finds only Patsiuk’s dirty shoes there.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1928-02-13
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Hiding at the Bottom of the Sea
Overview: Romka Marchenko, a young kid who is participating in movie shooting tries to stop international spy.
Genres: Adventure Action Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-06-06
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