Acting
Dmytro Kapka
Born November 7, 1898 · Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Died October 25, 1977 · aged 78
Participated in the Civil War (1918-1921), worked as ambassador of the Ukrainian SSR in Poland (until 1924). In 1923 he graduated from the screen department of the Higher Courses of Cinema in Warsaw. Played at the Kiev theater under the direction of P.Saksaganskiy (1917). Worked in cinema since 1923.
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.
Quiet Flows the Don · 1957Quiet Flows the Don
★ 6.31957
MovieDramaHistory
Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.
The Fire of Immortality · 1956The Fire of Immortality
★ 9.01956
MovieHistoryDrama
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka · 1961Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
★ 7.21961
MovieComedyFantasy
The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
The Diplomatic Pouch · 1927The Diplomatic Pouch
★ 4.71927
MovieThrillerDrama
The Soviet embassy in England sends two couriers with diplomatic mail to Leningrad. The inspector of security police, White, and a group of policemen attack the Soviet diplomatic couriers at night. The documents get to an English trackman, who gives them to his son, a sailor in Portsmouth.
The Lost Letter · 1972The Lost Letter
★ 7.81972
MovieComedyFantasy
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.
Tavria · 1960Tavria
★ 2.01960
MovieDrama
1914, Imperial Russia. A group of Ukrainian peasants searching for a better life in the Taurida steppe end up working at the landholding of the aristocratic Falz-Fein family. Friends Vustya and Hanna are courted by a revolutionary and the landowner's son, both rising their hopes and dreams.
Sons Go Into Battle · 1969Sons Go Into Battle
★ 3.01969
MovieWarDrama
The film takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Tolya and Aleksey, the sons of Anna Korzun, became partisans and fought against the invaders in the BSSR.
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