Bohdan Stupka
Birthday: Born in 1941-08-27 in Kulykiv, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Deathday: 2012-07-22
Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka (27 August 1941 – 22 July 2012) was a popular Ukrainian actor. At the 26th Moscow International Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in the film "Our Own". Stupka has played more than a hundred roles in films and over fifty in the theater. Stupka has been awarded the titles Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of the USSR, and Hero of Ukraine (Order of the State, 2011), as well as a number of film awards. Later in his career he became the Minister of Culture of Ukraine.
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Однажды в Ростове
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USSR, June 2, 1962. After the reduction of wages and price increases, residents of Novocherkassk went to a peaceful demonstration. But passions quickly heated up and led to a tragedy - the shooting of protesting workers, despite the protests of General Shaposhnikov. The authorities manage to hush up the tragedy, they take a non-disclosure agreement from witnesses, and all those who disagree receive prison sentences....
Stara baśń. Kiedy słońce było bogiem
Character: Popiel
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Солдаты свободы
Character: Fyodor Startsev
The action of the epic film takes place in the second half of World War II. The plot focuses on the liberation of European countries from German occupation and the anti-fascist activities of the communist parties of these countries. After the victory at Stalingrad, a decisive turn occurred during the war. The main aim is the rallying of all patriotic forces, the creation of a national anti-fascist front in the struggling countries. The swift offensive of the Soviet troops, problems with the op...
Три полуграции
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For the Family Hearth
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The story of the happy couple Aneli and Anton Angarovych. They love each other, love their children and are ready for anything for the well-being of their family hearth. For this reason, Anton gave five years of his life to the service in Bosnia. Anelya solved this problem in her own way: in order to save the dignity and honor of her family, which she tarnished by participating in criminal cases, she committed suicide....
Illumination
Character: Yuriy Morozenko
The film is about microbiological scientists who are exploring the causes and mechanisms of the action of oncological diseases, looking for ways to fight this insidious and dangerous disease for humans....
With Fire and Sword
Character: Bohdan Chmielnicki
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century....
Alexander: The Neva Battle
Character: Prince Yaroslav
Young prince Aleksandr has to hold out against two enemies - the Horde in the east and the Teutonic order and Sweden in the west. He discovers that some boyars are plotting against him and are ready to betray Novgorod to the Swedes and the Germans to boost their trade. Meanwhile, his best friend falls under suspicion, as somebody tries to poison the young prince at his own wedding feast. Aleksandr has no way out - to defend his people against the invaders and to find the true poisoner....
Nikolay Vavilov
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Biopic devoted to the history of the life of Soviet biologist, academician Nikolai Vavilov. His scientific and personal confrontation with Trofim Lysenko, the subsequent arrest and death of the scientist in prison....
The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God
Character: Popiel
In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ......
Uncradled
Character: Narrator (voice)
About a fastidious beauty who could not decide who can become her husband. Her younger sisters decided get married, and Marussia still can not be determined. And no one knows how much more time she would remain alone with such a personality if a young man didn’t decide to conquer the impregnable girl......
Pipers
Character: Леонтович
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Ivan Mykolaichuk. Dedication
Character: self
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....
Svichka's Wedding
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The story is based on a play by Ivan Kocherha about love against the backdrop of the craftsmen's uprising in Kyiv in the 16th century. The drama and the animation take place simultaneously in Podil, the center of bourgeois and craftsman life, and on mount Vzdykhalnytsia, where the Lithuanian castle is located. The director Tadeush Pavlenko takes the last three acts of Kocherha's play as a basis, placing the female character Melanka, the beloved of Ivan Svichka, at the center of the plot....
Giordano Bruno
Character: (voice)
The story of Giordano Bruno, who held various researches and observations of planets and stars around the Earth. He lived in the 16th century, and his innovative views did not bring him anything but persecution at that time. Some moments of his life are ranked as real feats, one of which will be discussed in this animation....
Dictatorship
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Television production of the play "Dictatorship" by Ukrainian playwright Ivan Mykytenko, who was repressive in the 1930s. The theme of the film was the tragic fate of the people deceived by the government - a peasant who was robbed to the last grain and his strength was destroyed....
Our Own
Character: Old Man
It is August 1941. With the battle line far away in the east, three soldiers who have managed to escape from captivity find it difficult to hide: the territory is occupied by the enemy. The local woods are not safe: you can easily get embogged. Are the villagers loyal? Nobody can say. There is an old man who offers to help them. Is he reliable enough? He may kill them or report them to the local German authorities. Anything may happen, but one of them, the sniper, is his son who is his youngest,...
A Driver for Vera
Character: General Serov
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB....
The Three and the Snowflake
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Three friends are traveling to Amsterdam where they suddenly meet Katya - a young girl who soon become very important for the two of them....
Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba
Character: Taras Bulba
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies....
The Kaidash Family
Character: Omelko Kaidash
Ukraine, the village of Semyhory. Two sons get married in the Kaidash family - Karp and Lavrin. But there is no peace in their home. Constant quarrels in the family between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law force the sons to share their father's property. Native people become enemies when it comes to the distribution of property....
And a Warm Heart
Character: Konstanty
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Weird Christmas
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Действие фильма начинается в сумасшедшем доме, куда новоявленные опекуны привозят свою мачеху Ольгу Самойлову на кануне Рождества. Вдова алкогольного магната Самойлова поставила целью своей жизни осуществлять чужие заветные мечты за собственные деньги. И трое ее приемных детей сочли эту идею чистым безумием. И потому......
Brothel Lights
Character: Zaslavsky
In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out....
Ivanov
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A drama based on a classic short story by Anton Chekhov....
The Stone Host
Character: Don Juan
TV adaptation of Lesya Ukrainka's drama, which interprets the plot of Don Juan from a feminist point of view....
Old Men: Colonels
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The adventures of two old friends: Andrey Andreevich - the former KGB colonel and Oleg Borisovich - former chief of police....
Home
Character: Grigoriy Shamanov
In a large house in the middle of the steppes, the Shamanovs meet for a family gathering. When suddenly the eldest brother Victor appears after a 25 year absence, unspoken family conflicts come to light. Nobody suspects that Victor is escaping his dark past and that killers are looking for his hiding place....
Chantrapas
Character: Boris Firsov
A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship in his homeland, Soviet Georgia, Niko decides to move to France, only to find that he has merely traded one type of interference for another....
Handfuls
Character: Narrator (voice)
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It All Starts With Love
Character: Antonyuk
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The Lonely Player
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A married man needs a lot of money and he is trying to get them form a huge bet on horse-riding....
A Hare over the Abyss
Character: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Once upon a time, in the seventy-first year of the last century, the relived two bureaucrats in Moldova: the First Secretary and the Second Secretary of the Communist party. The Second Secretary was more important than the First Secretary, since he had befriended the Tsar of the whole Soviet Union - Leonid Brezhnev. The Moldovan Republic is preparing for a visit from the great Brezhnev when Lautar, a poor musician, finally gets up the nerve to ask the local gypsy Baron for his daughters hand in ...
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
Character: Alexander Kerensky
The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution....
A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
Character: Hetman Mazepa
'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence....
Dress Rehearsal
Character: Vasili Gogol
A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film Studion in 1988. Based on the short story "Gogol-gimnazist" by Vasili Avenarius....
Whirlpool
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The Stone Soul
Character: Old Marusyak
The events take place in the XIX century, in the Carpathian mountains. It is the screen adaptation of the novel by Hnat Khotkevych based on the legend of brave leaders who fought against the Austrian Habsburgs and the Polish magnates for the happiness and freedom of its people. And also it is a romantic story about a fatal overwhelming love....
The Gray Wolves
Character: V.E. Semichastnyj
The film depicts the events of 1964 when Nikita Khrushchyov was forcibly replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as a head of USSR....
Sin
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At first playfully, and then seriously, the heroine falls in love with her friend's husband, who fights for social justice. Then there will be an arrest, exhausting interrogations of a police officer fascinated by her, involvement in the death of her lover. And that's not all......
Gelli and Nok
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Gelli and Nok accidentally find themselves in the same boat and for several days they sail together along the river to the sea. He is a convict fugitive, she is young, outspoken and pure. Gelli managed to bring the disappointed Nock back to life, gave him love and happiness...
East/West
Character: Colonel Boyko
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step....
The Chumaks' Way
Character: Narrator (voice)
It happened long ago on the Ukrainian land, in those days when many people could not get salt, which was the most important value. A simple lad decided to go once in distant lands to bring a little salt to his friends and relatives. His path was to be difficult and dangerous, so his close people tried to dissuade him from this trip. But the young man was really brave and courageous and decided on something that no one could even imagine......
Prince Danylo Halytskyi
Character: Sudich
XIII century. Prince Daniel of Galicia returned from the Horde, where he graciously have allowed to rule in Galicia in exchange for recognition his submission to Khan. But he can not accept the humiliation. He begins to prepare for war with the hordes of Batu, who conquered many Russian principalities. The Hungarian king, Lithuanians and Poles promised to support Daniel, but Pope Innocent IV refuses to lend a hand. Daniel's army is compelled to reflect the invasion of nomads herself....
Kuban Cossacks. And Already Two Hundred Years...
Character: Narrator (voice)
A documentary about the history of Ukrainian Cossacks in the Kuban....
Defying Everybody
Character: Simeon
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....
Fuchzhou
Character: Matviy Kosht
The action is set at the start of the twentieth century, between a village by the River Dnyepr and the coast of Florida. While the story has ironic, romantic and sometimes mystic angles, the bitter aspects of emigration from the Ukraine to the United States become clearly visible....
The Black Council
Character: Briukhovetsky
The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice....
Vechernitsy
Character: Fintik
Four friends go to an amusement park, where they discover an unusual attraction that works like a time machine and takes everyone back in time to the scenes of old vaudeville shows......
From the Life of Ostap Vyshnya
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Biographical film of the most dramatic period in the life of the famous Ukrainian writer Ostap Vyshnya, who in the 1930s was repressed by the Russian authorities and exiled to Siberia. Faithful wife and assistant Varvara Maslyuchenko shared his fate and followed her husband into exile....
12 Months. A New Fairy Tale
Character: December
Girl of our time gets into a dreamlike world. The middle of winter, she shall bring out of the woods bouquet of snowdrops to come New Year, which decided to cancel the evil royal advisor. And only then did she return to her parents....
Judenkreis: The Eternal Wheel
Character: Liberzon
A completely true story about how a real. live Don Juan comes to a Bukovynsky border town and what happens as a result. In the center 01 the story is the Ukrainian maiden Marichka’s love, which takes place against the background of numerous coup d‘etats during the Second World War....
Four sheets of plywood
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The young, curious journalist Sofia (Olga Sumska) at tragic circumstances meets the investigator Bohdan Mazepa (Ivan Havrylyuk). Soon their paths intersect: Sofia receives the task to write an article about our valorous militia, where that very successful captain having no unsolved cases is to appear as the protagonist. Except for one. What secrets does this case hide and how will fates of Bohdan and Sofia develop, will love be able to survive the frightful truth?...
The House is Being Built
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The plot is based on a conflict that arose at the architectural design institute....
Stolen Happiness
Character: Mykola Zadorozhny
Anna and Michailo grow up together, attracted to each other since their earliest days. When Anna's father dies, her brothers force her into marriage with the mean farmer Mikola. After years of absence, Michailo comes home, to get her back....
18-14
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Detective story set up in the time and place of young Pushkin, at Tsarskosel'sky Liceum....
Forget the Word 'Death'
Character: Иван Островой
1920. Russian Civil War. Operation of GubCheka (Soviet police) to destroy one of the bands in Ukraine....
Elysian Fields
Character: Proinka's father
On the eve of Christmas in the estate "Elysian Fields" landowner Vladimir gathered his friends - young Proinka with her father and their neighbor Vasili....
Chinese Tea-Set
Character: Лапшин
The film is set in 1913 Russia during the celebrations of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Rich Russian merchants are celebrating their wealth by gambling and playing poker. They are traveling aboard the luxurious cruise liner "St. Nikolai" on Volga river, oblivious to the fact that several gangs of crooks and con-artists are stealing their money in the game. Their target is the wealthiest Russian tycoon Satanovsky....
Rejection
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The world has changed beyond recognition. Just yesterday the bustling streets are now deserted and quiet. All around are left in a hurry vehicles, convoys of military equipment, few people move in fear without end. The sky is becoming more green. In search of answers Andrey Luptsov begins a journey with his neighbor Ivan. But where to go when the world is increasingly alien and incomprehensible? Along the way, he finds an unconscious ballerina Andriy Bella, taking care of her, coming to her forg...
The White Bird Marked with Black
Character: Orest Dzvonar
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....
Housewarming
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The story of the life of the Podolsk village and what the inhabitants of the village had to go through during the years of Soviet power. Through the fate of the heroes, the film tells about the events of collectivization in the village, where for centuries, everyone used to work only on his own farm, about the war years, when many quiet people showed miracles of heroism, and universal favorites became nazi puppets....
Proceed to the investigation. Film 1: Version
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The police received a statement about the disappearance of the collective farm procurer with a large amount of money. This served as the basis for the investigation of a complex criminal case related to major theft and murder. The case is being investigated by the investigator for particularly important cases, Stasenko ......
Самый последний день
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Gogol the Bird
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This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Documentary shows that the author of "Dead Souls", "The Inspector General" and "Taras Bulba" is not the founder of realism in Russian literature, but a modern and actual avant-garde writer who created works hitherto unprecedented, full of magic and phantasmagoria....
To proceed with the investigation. Movie 2: Slander
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For several years, the head of a major construction trust Melnikov was accused of embezzlement, bribe-taking and immoral behavior in anonymous letters. As a result of inspections by numerous commissions, all these “signals” were not confirmed. Melnikov, unable to withstand the attacks and slander, died of a heart attack. Investigator Dzhangirov manages to expose the slanderer ......
Buy a friend
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Kim Bulatovich - the power and strength of the Sychov family, he spent most of his active life away from loved ones at the gold mines in Siberia. He sent all the money he earned to his relatives, giving them the opportunity to live comfortably, and therefore to live carefree for many years. Deciding to go on a well-deserved rest, settle down next to his relatives, he suddenly began to gasp in the mercantile philistine world of his family, saw an unacceptable falsity in his relationship between ...
Kremlin secrets of the XVI century
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Spring of 1584. The Magi predict the death of King John within 24 hours. Warring boyars are rebelling and are ready to unite against Boris Godunov. The royal court is in turmoil. The already unstable moral principles become completely unbridled. Moscow is filled with violence, drunken orgies and the wild revelry of tsarist power....
Insight
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Psychotherapist Anna Sergeevna Bochkareva has everything that is considered to be indicators of success and solvency in life. She lectures at the institute, her articles are published in respected scientific publications, she has her own practice and a house in perfect order. But one day the system into which the heroine turned her life is destroyed because of one single meeting. In the charity orphanage where Anna works, a new patient appears - a strange Old Man who has only a few months left t...
Two in One
Character: Masha's father
This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality - if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal....
Sappho
Character: Professor Orlov
On honeymoon on the island of Lesbos, a woman falls for the daughter of a Russian archaeologist....
One Love of My Soul
Character: Grigory Skovoroda
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Theatre Season
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The love story of journalist and actor. They are connected by a great mutual feeling, but he has a wife and a son. Realizing that she is his only true love, he still does not dare to leave his family....