Stepan Shkurat

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

ViyViy · 1967
Viy
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.
DownpourDownpour · 1929
Downpour
1929
MovieHistory
The lost film about the peasant rebellion of the 18th century in Ukraine, led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta. The history of the haydamak movement became a trigger for authors to have experiments in the field of film language: shooting against the background of black velvet, focus on the static character of the picture, the sculptural nature of composition mise-en-scène solutions, replacement of dramatic collisions with cinema engravings depicting the historical past.
May NightMay Night · 1938
May 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"
The Red VillageThe Red Village · 1935
The Red Village
8.01935
MovieDrama
The movie's opening sequence takes place in 1921, towards the end of Russia's civil war, as the Red Army are vanquishing the last Menshevik forces of the White Guard along the western frontier.
Fata MorganaFata Morgana · 1931
Fata 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.
AerogradAerograd · 1935
Aerograd
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.
ChapayevChapayev · 1934
Chapayev
5.91934
MovieDramaHistory
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
EarthEarth · 1930
Earth
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.

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