Acting
Stepan Shkurat
Born January 8, 1886 · Kobeliaky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]
Died February 26, 1973 · aged 87
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).
Known For
Viy · 1967Viy
★ 6.91967
MovieDramaFantasy
A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.
Ivan · 1932Ivan
★ 4.81932
MovieDrama
A young farmer Ivan and his lazy father Stepan try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.
Fata Morgana · 1931Fata Morgana
1931
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Earth · 1930Earth
★ 6.71930
MovieDrama
During the agrarian collectivization process in the Soviet Union, Vasyl, a peasant member of the youth division of the Communist Party, gets a tractor with the help of a local party organization and plows private boundaries on kulak fields. However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.
Aerograd · 1935Aerograd
★ 5.01935
MovieDramaAction
A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions develop between workers and a religious sect. Relations between the two countries are further strained in the days before World War II, dating back to the Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
Ukrainian Rhapsody · 1961Ukrainian Rhapsody
★ 5.81961
MovieDramaRomance
World War II separates lovers Oksana and Anton. The young man is taken prisoner by the Germans, while his beloved abandons her studies at the conservatory to become a frontline nurse. Despite all the hardships, their paths cross again.
May Night · 1938May Night
★ 7.01938
MovieFantasy
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"
Chapayev · 1934Chapayev
★ 6.01934
MovieDramaHistory
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.














