Ivan Mykolaichuk

Acting

Ivan Mykolaichuk

Born June 15, 1941 · Chertoriya, Chernovitskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Died August 3, 1987 · aged 46

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 t…

Known For

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire BulgeLiberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge · 1970
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
★ 7.41970
MovieDramaWar
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.
Shadows of Forgotten AncestorsShadows of Forgotten Ancestors · 1965
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
★ 7.51965
MovieDramaRomance
In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart.
AnnychkaAnnychka · 1969
Annychka
★ 5.71969
MovieDrama
In the dark days of Nazi occupation, a young Hutsul girl native to the Carpathian mountains falls in love with a wounded Soviet partisan. Their affair sets in motion a tragic chain of events, as her family turns against her with shocking results.
The Stone CrossThe Stone Cross · 1968
The Stone Cross
★ 6.51968
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Liberation - Part 2 : BreakthroughLiberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough · 1970
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
★ 7.01970
MovieWarDrama
Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.
Under Constellation GeminiUnder Constellation Gemini · 1979
Under Constellation Gemini
★ 7.01979
MovieScience FictionDrama
The artificial brain Sig, created under the guidance of Professor Yavorovsky, disappeared in one of the research institutes. Meanwhile, strange phenomena are happening in the city: all the zoo animals have been released from their cages, and the books in the city's book depository have been mixed up. And Whitefish, having mastered the accumulated experience of science and fiction accumulated by mankind, creates an artificial organism himself, returns to the professor and is soon sent to the constellation Gemini.
A Story of the Forest: MavkaA Story of the Forest: Mavka · 1980
A Story of the Forest: Mavka
★ 5.91980
MovieDramaFantasy
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.
WeedsWeeds · 1967
Weeds
★ 7.01967
MovieDrama
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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To Dream and to LiveTo Dream and to Live · 1975
To Dream and to Live
★ 7.01975
MovieDrama
The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the editorial censorship at the studio, and then at Derzhkino. A lot of claims were made against him. The demands for amendments and endless additions and rewrites by the authors lasted for about a year. The original version of the title "Na pokhony!" ("To bow down!") was replaced by "To Dream and to Live". According to Pylyp Ilyenko, the director's eldest son, this name appeared "as a result of censor pressure." Censorship stopped the tape 40 times: at the stage of the literary script, director's, during film tests (the actors were not approved), filming, etc. The film catastrophically fell apart into fragments, into masterfully filmed, but unrelated scenes. The director called the finished version a "dead film".

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