Stepan Shahaida
Also Known As: Степан Шагайда, Stepan Shagaida
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: January 09, 1896
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 12, 1938
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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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The Last Night
Overview: Historical-revolutionary film about the struggle of the Bolshevik underground against the interventionists during the civil war in Odessa, about the participation of children in underground work.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1933-12-10
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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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Karmelyuk
Overview: About the uprising of Ukrainian peasants under the leadership of the national hero Karmelyuk against landowners and Polish gentry. In the 1830s, Young Count Piglovsky returns to his estate from Paris. The carriage in which he is riding is surrounded by rebellious peasants. Their attempt to hang the master is canceled almost at the last moment, because it is not the count in the carriage, but his lackey - Ustym Karmelyuk. Ustym really serves as a lackey in the count's house and at the same time leads a peasant uprising. The government sends the army. In a fierce fight, Karmelyuk is almost captured, but he is saved by one of the serfs.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1931-09-06
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Perekop
Overview: This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.
Genres: War
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1930-11-21
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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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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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Five Brides
Overview: During the Russian civil war, the Whites, that anti-Communist force that fought against the Bolsheviks during that period, capture a Jewish Ukranian village; the gang commander threatens a pogrom, and will kill everyone in the village unless the inhabitants agree to give to the White Officers five virgin girls in wedding dresses. Under such terrible pressure, the Jewish council of the town decides, full of sorrow and despair, to sacrifice their daughters to the drunken officers but fortunately and just in time, a detachment of partisans that belong to the Red Army, comes and frees the village.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1930-03-18
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A True Comrade
Overview: On the upbringing of a sense of camaraderie in Soviet schoolchildren.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1937-05-12
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Vendetta
Overview: Neighbors, priest Sylvestr Izhekheruvymskyi and deacon Hordii Sviatoptitsyn, had a bloody feud with each other over a cherry tree that grew on the border between them and one day unexpectedly bore abundant large juicy berries.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1925-07-15
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MacDonald
Overview: A political satire on one of the enemies of the Soviet regime, the leader of the English Labour Party, James Ramsay Macdonald. The plot unfolds at a fast pace, using grotesque satirical techniques to prove that the royal power in England is a fiction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Semiramis’ Pearls
Overview: It is a history of founding Odesa at the location of former Turkish fortress Khadjibey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1929-03-29
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They Don’t Give Any Chance to Go
Overview: The action takes place in the late 1920s in Ukraine. The exposure of a counter-revolutionary agent who has infiltrated the Soviet scientific community. The film has survived without the 6th part.
Genres: History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1930-02-20
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