Bohdan Beniuk

Bohdan Beniuk

Born: May 26, 1957
in Bytkiv, Stanislav Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]

Movies for Bohdan Beniuk...

My Carpathian Grandpa
Title: My Carpathian Grandpa
Character: Mykhailo
Released: December 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Young Italian Michele, who has Ukrainian roots, goes to an abandoned Carpathian village to dispel the dust of his mother. Here he meets his grandfather Michael. This unexpected meeting changes their lives forever.
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Father
Title: Father
Released: July 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Businessman Vlad Artemiev returns to his native home, where he learns about the death of his father, with whom he has not been in touch for almost a quarter of a century. Memories of the past prevent Vlad from moving on, so he tries to correct all his mistakes. What was hiding behind the long silence of the closest men?
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Captain Brovary
Title: Captain Brovary
Character: Taxi driver Ihor
Released: April 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Comedy mockumentary film. A group of documentary filmmakers makes films about life in Brovary (Kyiv region, Ukraine). Unexpectedly, they manage to shoot a real hero with superpowers. His name is Captain Brovary, he is quite narcissistic, but is loved by all the locals. However, a competitor appears on the horizon. His name is Black Exterminator.
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Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf
Title: Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf
Character: Buben
Released: October 13, 2022
Type: Movie
Ukraine - 1636. Someone has attacked a battalion of cossacks that were transporting the gold of the Polish king. A cossack - Maksym Osa - tries to find the missing gold, but soon becomes one of the main suspects.
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Winner
Title: Winner
Released: August 23, 2022
Type: Movie
The hero experiences an addiction which he tries to overcome.
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Real Santa
Title: Real Santa
Released: January 13, 2022
Type: Movie
In the interweaving of five stories, the New Year's magician himself ceases to believe in miracles, because burdened with life and immersed in work, people completely forget about the holiday. He takes serious action and sells his suit to a simple guy who has long since lost his sense of "New Year's magic". By leaving his position as a magician, Santa deprives people not only of a festive mood, but also of snow that could contribute to this. But contrary to his views on the hopelessness of the modern generation, people notice the changes and become the creators of a real New Year's miracle on their own.
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The Gift
Title: The Gift
Character: Grandfather Makar
Released: August 8, 2021
Type: Movie
Among the living beings who like to hide from their owners, today in the first place - a mobile phone. It's easy to find if you have another cell phone. If there is no other - the search can turn into a detective, drama, comedy, absurdity. In order to unravel this detective, not turning it into a drama and smile at the absurd, the hero of the film "Gift" needed one April night and the help of half the village.
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Victor_Robot
Title: Victor_Robot
Character: (voice)
Released: June 24, 2021
Type: Movie
This is a story about friendship of little voiceless robot Victor and a 8 year old girl Victoria who live in a far-away world in the distant future.
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Mother of Apostles
Title: Mother of Apostles
Released: December 3, 2020
Type: Movie
Motherly love has no limits. When a son is in danger, the mother does not hesitate to rush to his aid. For the sake of saving the child, she is ready to do anything. She even is ready to go through the hell of war. When Sofia finds out that a transport plane, the pilot of which is her son, was shot down, she sets off for the front line. Her journey is full of dangers. She does not know whether her son or any other member of the crew survived. She has no friends there on the unfamiliar territory, no helpers, no clear plan. There is only her willpower. But it is her will and love that help her to find people who begin to sympathize and help her, and thereby change themselves. A dangerous journey turns her from the mother of one pilot into the mother of all who need to be saved, who need the spiritual rebirth. She is ready to come for even those whom she considered an enemy.
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Chola the Bear
Title: Chola the Bear
Released: September 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Ursus is a story of three outcasts—Georgian unemployed film director, Ukrainian ex-stuntman and a Canadian female fighter for the wild animals' rights—making their desperate journey from Tbilisi, the capital of ex-Soviet Georgia plunged into a civil war, to Berlin at the beginning of 1992. Each of the three characters pursues their own goal without even knowing how much their fates are intertwined.
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Eastman
Title: Eastman
Character: «Barada»
Released: August 20, 2020
Type: Movie
This is a portrait of a man, for whom the war in Eastern Ukraine has become a personal challenge. Beard is a native of the Donbas, a man of about forty-five, a family guy, an ordinary worker. Director is a young man of about twenty-six, single, a west-man, coming from the intelligentsia. This is the usual day of the ordinary military. These are events and people whom you can meet there. This is the relationship between people who have to be here and now during the war. This is not only a unique life experience but also a kind of cultural exchange between different social strata and communities. This is the birth of new, special traditions.
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Toloka
Title: Toloka
Character: Lomaka
Released: August 20, 2020
Type: Movie
There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.
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Taras. Return
Title: Taras. Return
Character: Dyadka
Released: March 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Few weeks of Taras Shevchenko in Kazakhstan exile, before his discharge out of army, when agents of the secret police were in hot pursuit of him.
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Purpurinis rūkas
Title: Purpurinis rūkas
Released: February 6, 2019
Type: Movie
'Purple Smoke' tells the complex story of Lithuanian Jew Jozef, partisan commander Vlad and their two beloved Janes.
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The Secret Diary of Symon Petliura
Title: The Secret Diary of Symon Petliura
Character: Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
Released: September 6, 2018
Type: Movie
The Secret Diary of Simon Petliura takes an unprecedented look at the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic, which declared an independent Ukraine in 1918, and the later assassination of the UNR's chairman, Symon Petliura in Paris in 1926, orchestrated by the Kremlin at the start of the Soviet occupation of Ukraine.
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Lajko: Gypsy in Space
Title: Lajko: Gypsy in Space
Character: Leonid Brezhnev
Released: March 29, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1957 the Soviet Union decides to give Hungary the chance to choose the world's first cosmonaut, who can be the very first person in space. It seems like the best candidate is Lajkó, the gypsy spraying pilot.
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Now I Gonna Love You
Title: Now I Gonna Love You
Character: Michel
Released: December 31, 2015
Type: Movie
This Christmas comedy tells a story of how on Christmas Eve, a beautiful wife goes from prosperous restaurateur Michel. Trying to immediately restore the lost happiness, he gets into a vortex of tragicomic love triangle.
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Ivan the Powerful
Title: Ivan the Powerful
Character: Kovalskiy
Released: October 2, 2013
Type: Movie
"Strong Ivan" is a film telling an outstanding life story of Ivan Firtsak who was born in June, 1899 in a Ukrainian village Bilky, Irshava district in Zakarpattia Oblast. At the age of 18 he became a performer with a Czechoslovak circus and travelled to 64 countries of the world, astonishing everybody with his victories. He was a weightlifting champion of Czechoslovakia, a bodybuilding champion of Europe. He earned the nickname Strong Ivan Croton for his incredible strength. Ivan Firtsak won a great number of single combats with famous wrestlers of the world. From hands of the Queen of England he received a helmet and a belt decorated with cold and diamonds. American press called him the strongest man of the XX century. In 1937 in the prime of his fame he came back to the homeland.
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Lezhen
Title: Lezhen
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
The prince and his courtiers, dwelling in a castle near Lviv, suffer from an infestation of evil spirits who try to survive them. The last hope turns out to be the lazy grandson of the old economy. Lezhen does nothing but read books and eat dumplings. Then the prince promises to give him a daughter who can cook the hero's favorite dish as his wife if the man will kick the evil out of the castle.
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Angels of War
Title: Angels of War
Released: May 9, 2012
Type: Movie
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Kandahar
Title: Kandahar
Character: Бортинженер
Released: February 4, 2010
Type: Movie
A docudrama about the escape of Russian pilots after being taken hostage by the Taliban in 1996.
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Mysterious Island
Title: Mysterious Island
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A journalist from Moscow must go to mysterious island in order to find his wife who gone missing under versy suspicious and not clear circumstances.
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Title: Когда её совсем не ждёшь
Released: May 21, 2007
Type: TV
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Запорожець за Дунаєм
Title: Запорожець за Дунаєм
Character: Ivan Karas
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Black Council
Title: The Black Council
Character: Cherevan
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.
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Little Blue Hat
Title: Little Blue Hat
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The Ukrainian animation is based on the classic Scottish fairy tale about the misadventures of a regular fisherman, whose day was a complete disaster since early morning when he went into the woods to look for a tree for his new boat.
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The Seventh Route
Title: The Seventh Route
Released: January 2, 1997
Type: Movie
The film takes place in Kiev during the day. Daniel Pritulyak is serving foreigners as guide, who invents a route for the Americans on the life of an obscure but talented poet Danila Pritulyak.
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The Way the Butterfly Learned to Live
Title: The Way the Butterfly Learned to Live
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A humorous story of how an Admiral butterfly was born. He tried to learn as much as possible about everything that surrounds him, but the sudden awareness of his fragility pretty spoiled his mood. Is he destined to live only one day or not? After all, it is strange that his newly made friends have just come with gifts for his birthday, and he is already in full command of his own farewell ceremony.
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Viy
Title: Viy
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Three friends lived in a Ukrainian village. They were not rich, so they were happy to take up the proposed small job. They had to go to another village at a dark night. On the way, they saw a small farmhouse and a cottage, where they decided to spend the night. Thus very strange mystical events began.
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The Muscovite-Sorcerer
Title: The Muscovite-Sorcerer
Character: Moskal-charivnyk
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Tatyana’s husband left for the business trip. And right away the local ladies’ men begin to put the moves towards a young woman. At first she fights back, but under the pressure of good words and love-making she is ready to put up hands. But the husband’s returning makes allowances in the plans of all characters. Based on Ivan Kotliarevsky` vaudeville The Muscovite-Sorcerer, that, together with operetta Natalka Poltavka (Natalka from Poltava), was landmarks in the development of Ukrainian theater.
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The Story of One Piglet
Title: The Story of One Piglet
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A pig lived in a village, who made it to the Royal Palace and then became the leader of the pirates, and then the French Navy admiral. His wife was a princess, who, of course, had to try to qualify for the honor to link her fate with the pig. She even had to learn his native language and learn how to cook his favorite dish.
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Movie's Adventures ‒ The Rally
Title: Movie's Adventures ‒ The Rally
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The third cartoon about the adventures of a dog named Movie. This time, Movie and her wards Stas and Lesya take part in car races on a homemade car converted from a bicycle.
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Brave guys
Title: Brave guys
Released: May 14, 1993
Type: Movie
Four veteran pilots were invited by the leadership of the military unit to perform a special task. And it does not matter that they haggle in the market, because everything that happens — it's just a dream…
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Fuchzhou
Title: Fuchzhou
Character: Horiliy
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The action is set at the start of the twentieth century, between a village by the River Dnyepr and the coast of Florida. While the story has ironic, romantic and sometimes mystic angles, the bitter aspects of emigration from the Ukraine to the United States become clearly visible.
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Кому вгору, кому вниз
Title: Кому вгору, кому вниз
Released: February 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus
Title: Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus
Character: (voice)
Released: January 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Documentary trilogy about the thorny path of the famous Ukrainian poet, translator, political prisoner Vasyl Stus. Filmed in 1989-1992, it describes the life of the poet, the story of the destruction of the dissident by the Soviet authorities, highlights his influence on Ukrainian society during life and after his death, records the testimony of witnesses, films the liquidated Kuchino camp, in which Stus was imprisoned, the reburial of Stus, Lytvyn and Tykhy in 1989. Consists of three parts: «Come back to me, my memory» (Верни до мене, пам’яте моя), «In the white cold the sun of Ukraine» (У білій стужі сонце України), «Crucified on a black cross» (Розіп’ятий на чорному хресті).
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Who's up, who's down
Title: Who's up, who's down
Released: January 2, 1992
Type: Movie
One sunny morning in 1977 a man came out of the house, went to work and was in the 90s.
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Faithful Ruslan: History of the Guard Dog
Title: Faithful Ruslan: History of the Guard Dog
Character: Бульдозерист
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A Russian made-for-TV film about a guard dog named Ruslan.
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Hold on, Cossack!
Title: Hold on, Cossack!
Released: September 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Cossack Maxim and the girl who dressed in men's clothing run from Turkish captivity. On the road, full of adventures and surprises, they have to release the children stolen by evil janissaries. Lovers overcome all obstacles and win.
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Captain Krokus
Title: Captain Krokus
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
Appearance of Coco the Clown and Peach the Pig in the circus is always a happy holiday for children and adults in a small town. But the terrible Chuchelische is ready to do whatever it takes for this celebration to not take place and make children's laughter turn to tears. At this time, the city government is in the hands of insidious Kibernator-General, which decides to close the circus, arrest Coco and make a stuffed out of Peach. Two friends, Kid and Slice, with a good and brave Captain Crocus decide to save Coco and Peach and return the children to the circus.
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From the Life of Ostap Vyshnya
Title: From the Life of Ostap Vyshnya
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Biographical film of the most dramatic period in the life of the famous Ukrainian writer Ostap Vyshnya, who in the 1930s was repressed by the Russian authorities and exiled to Siberia. Faithful wife and assistant Varvara Maslyuchenko shared his fate and followed her husband into exile.
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Imitator
Title: Imitator
Character: Хостикоев (майор МВД)
Released: December 15, 1990
Type: Movie
The young man decides to go into business. The main advantage of "novice businessman" is a great ability to mimic other people's voices.
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Senit Zon
Title: Senit Zon
Released: March 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The action of the film takes place in one of the provincial towns, where on the occasion of the relocation of the defense plant and, as a result, the opening of the city for foreigners, they meet the "Caravan of Peace". They make a whole performance out of an ordinary event: ten loaves are baked and they are going to hand them over to the guests according to the old Russian custom, but suddenly they discover that the eleventh bread has appeared..
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The Witch
Title: The Witch
Character: sotnyk Zabryokha
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
In the Ukrainian village of Konotop, the chief Centurion wants to marry a beautiful girl and asks for the help of a young witch.
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A Parcel For Margaret Thatcher
Title: A Parcel For Margaret Thatcher
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The film was created in the genre of an anecdote, where it is about a grandfather from a Ukrainian village who painted wooden eggs and decided to send them to the "iron lady". At the post office workers told him: "You can't!". But the grandfather showed character, did not give up on the plan, and, overcoming many obstacles, still sent the parcel.
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Ivasyk-Telesyk
Title: Ivasyk-Telesyk
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The animation is based on a Ukrainian fairy tale about an old married couple, who had no children. One day the woman asked her husband to cut down a log and put it in a cradle for a night. The old man did what she had asked him to do. Next morning, a surprise was waiting for them.
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The Stone Soul
Title: The Stone Soul
Released: December 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The events take place in the XIX century, in the Carpathian mountains. It is the screen adaptation of the novel by Hnat Khotkevych based on the legend of brave leaders who fought against the Austrian Habsburgs and the Polish magnates for the happiness and freedom of its people. And also it is a romantic story about a fatal overwhelming love.
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Jump To The Cloud
Title: Jump To The Cloud
Character: (voice)
Released: June 7, 1988
Type: Movie
The story about the Kangaroo, which helped the Platypus to find and get the cloud. And the cloud was formed from a lake that evaporated.
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Love For Your Neighbor
Title: Love For Your Neighbor
Character: муж
Released: June 2, 1988
Type: Movie
The film consists of two short stories: "Monument" and "Love for Neighbor".
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Lady with a Parrot
Title: Lady with a Parrot
Character: Георгий Николаевич
Released: June 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Sergey meets girls at the sea that he, allegedly working in a prestigious profession (he is either a pilot, flying abroad, or an employee of Vneshtorg), easily succeeds. He is interested in a woman sitting alone on the beach with a parrot in a cage. She is not particularly inclined to get acquainted, but eagerly talks about her son - a round honors student who was even shown to a professor from the Novosibirsk Academgorodok. Here, Sergei meets a terribly impudent guy who knows who he actually works.
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Вечерницы
Title: Вечерницы
Character: Vasya
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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The Girl and the Hares
Title: The Girl and the Hares
Character: (voice)
Released: June 6, 1985
Type: Movie
About a little girl who lived in a small house near the woods and once met hares in the icy times and decided to help them. She shared her warm scarf with them, drove a foxaway from them , feed them with delicious homemade pies, and then built a cozy house for the greyish leverets, so that the wind did not make them shiver.
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Dictatorship
Title: Dictatorship
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Television production of the play "Dictatorship" by Ukrainian playwright Ivan Mykytenko, who was repressive in the 1930s. The theme of the film was the tragic fate of the people deceived by the government - a peasant who was robbed to the last grain and his strength was destroyed.
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Миколино богатство
Title: Миколино богатство
Character: (voice)
Released: June 7, 1983
Type: Movie
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Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Title: Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Character: Anton Golopuz
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich', 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt'.
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Let It Rain, Let It Rain!
Title: Let It Rain, Let It Rain!
Character: (voice)
Released: September 6, 1982
Type: Movie
Little Thunder dreams of growing up and wants to thunder and cause rain. For now, Grandpa Thunder does not allow him to do this and instructs him only to look for places on Earth where rain is needed.
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They Were Actors
Title: They Were Actors
Character: абитуриент
Released: December 12, 1981
Type: Movie
The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.
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Беспокойное лето
Title: Беспокойное лето
Character: akter oblastnogo teatra dramy i komedii
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Twelve-year-old Kolya discovers that his mother is getting married. The boy cannot come to terms with the idea that an uncle whom he does not like at all will be his father. Kolya decides to leave home...
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Kapitoshka - Water Bubble
Title: Kapitoshka - Water Bubble
Character: Wolf (voice)
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Animation film about a friendship between young Wolfy and Kapitoshka. Wolfy tries to learn how to be scary and threatening. But then he meets a drop of rain, Kapitoshka, which makes him realize that it is not necessary to be scary.
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Soft-Boiled Boots
Title: Soft-Boiled Boots
Released: October 31, 1978
Type: Movie
The film is based on the stories Anton Chekhov. It is a tribute to the actor Boris Andreyev. He plays a major role that keeps up for the duration of the film. Lively and intelligent Valery Spout largely mitigates underline the drama of the protagonist, while Michael Sveta's role, though small, is bright and memorable.
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One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...
Title: One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...
Character: Крынкин
Released: June 6, 1976
Type: Movie
The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
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Lucifer's case
Title: Lucifer's case
Character: Herasym Kalytka
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A wealthy peasant, Gerasim Kalitka, wants to buy his neighbor's land, but he doesn't have enough money. The unknown offers him to buy one hundred thousand fake money for five thousand. Kalitka together with the best man Savka buy this money. But instead of money, they are sold blank paper. In desperation, Kalitka wants to hang himself, but he is saved. Kalitka's greed almost ended in tragedy, but he continues to dream of land.