Ivan Mykolaichuk

Ivan Mykolaichuk

Born: June 15, 1941
Died: August 3, 1987
in Chertoriya, Chernovitskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk (Ukrainian: Іван Васильович Миколайчук) was a Ukrainian soviet actor, producer, and screen writer from Ukraine. He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (Тіні забутих предків) (1964), based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's book of the same name. He received the Komsomol prize of Ukraine in 1967, and the title of Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1968. He posthumously received the Taras Shevchenko prize.

Movies for Ivan Mykolaichuk...

Babylon XX
Title: Babylon XX
Character: Fabian
Released: December 9, 2021
Type: Movie
The new reality changes the usual life in the village of Babylon. Attempts to communize the small town are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance. Amidst the resistance philosopher Fabian returns to Babylon and tries to prevent bloodshed, but he meets a tragic fate.
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Ivan Mykolaichuk. Dedication
Title: Ivan Mykolaichuk. Dedication
Character: self
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of life and death of actor Ivan Mykolaychuk - the legend of Ukrainian poetic cinema. The film is stylized as Vertep Christmas mystery: the heroes are explaining themselves with the roles they play.
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Title: To Remember
Character: archivefootage
Released: December 9, 1993
Type: TV
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Zhmenyaks
Title: Zhmenyaks
Character: Pavlo Zhmenyak
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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At the edge of the sword
Title: At the edge of the sword
Released: August 31, 1986
Type: Movie
The plot is based on genuine events: a tendency to abandon subversive activities and surrender of one of the leaders of the Ukrainian counter-revolutionary underground, coroner general Y. Tyutyunnik. The young Chekist Sashko Kovalchuk infiltrates the Kiev counter-revolutionary underground.
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The Return of Butterfly
Title: The Return of Butterfly
Released: July 25, 1985
Type: Movie
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The Legend of Princess Olga
Title: The Legend of Princess Olga
Character: Volodymyr I Svyatoslavych
Released: February 27, 1984
Type: Movie
The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince Ihor and became his successor on the throne after his murder and one of the most remarkable political leaders in early medieval European history. She converted to Christianity and brought her realm into Europe.
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Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Title: Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Character: Kurochka
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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Such a Late, Such a Warm Autumn
Title: Such a Late, Such a Warm Autumn
Character: Grigor Korchak
Released: September 5, 1982
Type: Movie
The Bukovynian peasant Rusnak leaves the poor Bukovynian lands and goes to Canada with his little daughter Orysia - maybe he will be lucky there? And now Rusnak using the services of "Inturist" goes to his land where he was once happy.
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A Story of the Forest: Mavka
Title: A Story of the Forest: Mavka
Character: Uncle Leo / Wood Goblin
Released: July 23, 1980
Type: Movie
Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses the nymph, transforming her into a weeping willow. This beautiful and tragic story is based on a play written in 1912 by Lesya Ukrainka, a Ukrainian poet, writer and political, civil and female activist, and includes mythological characters taken from Ukrainian folklore.
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The Guest from the Future
Title: The Guest from the Future
Released: October 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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Atonement for Others' Sins
Title: Atonement for Others' Sins
Character: Rusin
Released: June 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Soviet Ukrainian drama set in the Uniate Church in the years of World War II.
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Sea
Title: Sea
Character: Simokhin
Released: August 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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Марина
Title: Марина
Character: дирижёр
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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About Vitya, Masha, and Marines
Title: About Vitya, Masha, and Marines
Character: Vakula
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Six years old Vitya lives with his parents in the Army base where he meets new friends and has a lot of adventures.
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Defying Everybody
Title: Defying Everybody
Character: Joko
Released: June 1, 1973
Type: Movie
The movie takes us through the trials and tribulations of Petar I Petrovic, the man who united Montenegro in the 18th century and led them in the Battle of Krusi against a huge Turkish army to return victorious and pave the first path towards economic development.
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When a person has smiled
Title: When a person has smiled
Character: Alexey Luganov
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Discover Yourself
Title: Discover Yourself
Character: (voice)
Released: December 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Documentary about the famous Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhoriy Skovoroda, which was banned by Soviet censorship. The film only reached the screens 15 years later, during Perestroika era.
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Third Planet in the Solar System
Title: Third Planet in the Solar System
Character: Bayan
Released: October 20, 1972
Type: Movie
The film is in 3 parts: 1) 'Eden' - Aliens from the planet Rhea have flown with a damaged spaceship to Earth, looking for intelligent beings. They find apemen and take one of them into their ship. 2) 'The Wanderer' - A crime writer, who is travelling to see his dying friend, picks up a strange hitchhiker. On his return from the sanatorium, his car goes off the road, but the stranger lifts it into the air and lands it back on the highway. Then he goes to the writer's house and shows him his supernatural abilities. 3) 'My First Day' - Len, an alien traveler arrives on Earth to share with humans the knowledge of their ancient civilization. He meets its inhabitants, who are served by robots and travel back in time, because their life is boring and meaningless. Every day his hostess Lena visits an ancient Slavic settlement and monitors its inhabitants. One day she appears before the hunter Bayan, who has been captivated by her beauty and takes her into his hut.
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Zakhar Berkut
Title: Zakhar Berkut
Character: Lyubomir
Released: April 3, 1972
Type: Movie
This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.
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The White Bird Marked with Black
Title: The White Bird Marked with Black
Character: Petro Dzvonar
Released: January 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A family struggles to survive in an area that was claimed as part of Rumania, Poland and the Ukraine, all within a short span of time. When World War II comes, various family members choose different masters; some even choose to work for the Soviets. War, struggle, marriages, births, deaths--all these events punctuate the story of this large family.
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The Lost Letter
Title: The Lost Letter
Character: Vasyl, the cossack
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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The Commissars
Title: The Commissars
Character: Gromov
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events in Ukraine in 1921 after the defeat of Ukrainian liberation struggle and the occupation of the country by invading Bolshevik hordes. The Bolsheviks are good guys and Ukrainian rebels refusing to submit to a new, this time Soviet, slavery are portrayed as bandits and brigands fighting against their own people.
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Лада из страны берендеев
Title: Лада из страны берендеев
Character: Рей
Released: March 5, 1971
Type: Movie
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I'm Coming to You...
Title: I'm Coming to You...
Released: December 31, 1970
Type: Movie
The main motive of the film - a tragic love of Lesya Ukrainka to Marxist revolutionary Sergei Merzhinskiy. The film is about the poetess' trip to her beloved, in the literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
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Liberation: The Break Through
Title: Liberation: The Break Through
Character: Sergeant Savchuk
Released: May 8, 1970
Type: Movie
A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - "Liberation".
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Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Title: Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Character: Savchuk
Released: May 7, 1970
Type: Movie
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
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Annychka
Title: Annychka
Character: Roman
Released: May 27, 1969
Type: Movie
This film is a romantic story of love between a Hutsul girl and wounded Soviet guerrilla Andrii whom she rescues from certain death. The events unfold against the backdrop of WW2 presented with many obligatory falsehoods of the imperial Russian historiography: heroic Soviet guerrillas, poor and backward Hutsuls, rich Hutsuls betraying their own people and collaborating with the enemy, Ukrainians incapable of their own agency. Crude and mendacious as it is, this ideology is relegated to the narrative background, and the viewer's attention gets quickly captivated by the artistic fortes of the film: riveting stage presence of Kostiantyn Stepankov, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Boryslav Brondukov and the debuting Ivan Havryliuk; gorgeously atmospheric photography of Mykola Kulchytsky, beautiful faces, language, and dress of the Carpathian Ukrainians, and a faithful presentation of Hultsul folk culture devoid of typically condescending Soviet colonial slant.
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Honore de Balzac's mistake
Title: Honore de Balzac's mistake
Character: Levko, a serf lackey of Countess Evelina Hanska
Released: January 6, 1969
Type: Movie
It is a story of the relationship of A French writer and a beautiful duchess Ganskaya. The events take place in a picturesque estate of the aristocrat on the Ukrainian land, which is under the power of Polish landowners. Ganskaya is considered to be the most important woman in Balzac’s life.
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The Scouts
Title: The Scouts
Character: Kurganov
Released: October 26, 1968
Type: Movie
The Great Patriotic War. 1945 year. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instructs the reconnaissance group a difficult and dangerous operation — to obtain from the enemy a map of the mined sections of the river, which requires penetrating into the city captured by the Germans.
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The Kyiv Direction
Title: The Kyiv Direction
Released: June 10, 1968
Type: Movie
Historical and military film about the exploits of fighters during Kyiv defense against the onset of the Nazi troops. In virtually hopeless situation soldiers fulfilled their duty to the end. Capture of Kyiv was the first Pyrrhic Hitler’s victory that in the end led to defeat of Germany during the war.
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The Stone Cross
Title: The Stone Cross
Character: Mykola
Released: March 7, 1968
Type: Movie
In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.
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Buryan
Title: Buryan
Character: David Motuzka
Released: July 9, 1967
Type: Movie
David Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the changes caused by the revolutionary events. But he cannot see no improvement. The village is ruled by the kulaks and David's childhood friend Kornii Matiukha helps them.
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Kyiv melodies
Title: Kyiv melodies
Character: Composer
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The action of the film takes place in winter Kyiv. After a sleepless night, a young composer goes for a walk through a snowy city in search of inspiration for a new melody; its route passes against the background of many sights of the capital. On the way, the hero observes city life and nature, people, near the maternity hospital he pulls out a happy young father who has fallen into a coma, and he notices a girl in a trolleybus. She is in a hurry in her affairs, and the enthusiastic composer follows her relentlessly. And every sound he hears becomes part of a new melody for him. The finale of the film is a panorama of Kyiv to the song "Two Colors".
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Viper
Title: Viper
Released: May 10, 1966
Type: Movie
The dramatic story of the merchant's daughter, who became a brave fighter of the cavalry squadron of the red Army, later could not find herself in a peaceful life
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Title: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Character: Ivan Paliychuk
Released: October 18, 1965
Type: Movie
In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind stays on his lost love. To recapture his attention, Palagna tries sorcery, and in the process comes under the spell of the sorcerer, publicly humiliating Ivan, who then fights the sorcerer. The lively rhythms of village life, the work and the holidays, the pageant and revelry of weddings and funerals, the change of seasons, and nature's beauty give proportion to Ivan's tragedy.
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A Dream
Title: A Dream
Character: Taras Shevchenko
Released: December 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic made on the occasion of his 150th anniversary. It dwells on the first part of the Shevchenko's life leading up to the writing of his rebellious poem "A Dream" (A comedy). The film features the first appearance on the silver screen of the iconic Ukrainian actor Ivan Mykolaichuk (as Taras Shevchenko).
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Двоє
Title: Двоє
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie