Vasyl Symchych

Acting

Vasyl Symchych

Born 1915-01-08 · Seredniy Bereziv, now part of Kosiv Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Russian Empire

Vasyl Symchych was a Ukrainian actor and film director. He was born on 8 January 1915 in Seredniy Bereziv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. He was awarded the title "Merited Artist of Ukraine".

Acting credits

Housewarming poster
5.0

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.

Housewarming

1974

Zakhar Berkut poster
5.1

This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.

Zakhar Berkut

1972

Until The Last Minute poster
10.0

The prototype of the hero of the film - Soviet Ukrainian writer Yaroslav Galan, who devoted the last years of his life to exposing the Greek Catholic Church and the Ukrainian nationalists.

Until The Last Minute

1974

Illumination poster
NR

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.

Illumination

1971

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... poster
6.5

A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians...

1978

Ivan Franko poster
10.0

Historical and biographical film about the life and work of Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.

Ivan Franko

1956

The Stone Cross poster
6.5

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.

The Stone Cross

1968

Annychka poster
5.7

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.

Annychka

1969

The Deluge poster
7.2

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.

The Deluge

1974

The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue poster
6.3

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue

1976

My Tender and Affectionate Beast poster
6.1

An aristocrat falls for a young woman who brings him ruin. Based on Chekhov's story. AKA A Hunting Accident, The Shooting Party.

My Tender and Affectionate Beast

1978

The Grandfather of the Left Winger poster
NR

Trofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.

The Grandfather of the Left Winger

1973

Zozulya with Diploma poster
8.0

USSR of 70th years of the twentieth century. Maxim Zozulya is graduating from school and trying to find his place in life. Everything was pretty evenly before Natalia has won Maxim’s heart. Her character and appearance has attracted protagonist. However, to achieve reciprocity, Maxim will have to pass many difficult situations.

Zozulya with Diploma

1972

Tsars poster
8.0

In a mountain village in Transcarpathia lives the family of a carpenter Mykhailo Tsar. They are respected everywhere, and the head of the family is very proud of it. Suddenly the son Oleksa fell in love with the paramedic Nadya, although he has a wife and Nadya has a child. Father and brothers force Oleksa to leave his mistress.

Tsars

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Memory...

1978

The White Bird Marked with Black poster
6.0

A family struggles to survive in an area that was claimed as part of Rumania, Poland and 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.

The White Bird Marked with Black

1972

Defying Everybody poster
5.2

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.

Defying Everybody

1973

Wedding poster
5.4

Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.

Wedding

1973

The Tale of a Woman poster
NR

The film tells the story of a woman, Natalka Nechay, who works as a rolling mill operator. Her personal life hasn't worked out — she's separated from her husband. Her adult children are also facing difficulties: her son has divorced his wife, and her daughter, who is supposed to be preparing for her exams, has decided to get married...

The Tale of a Woman

1975

The Lost Letter poster
7.7

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.

The Lost Letter

1972

If You Want To Be Happy poster
6.0

Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei is a test pilot, and Tanya works on television, and both are constantly on business trips. They have two sons — twins. For eight years of marriage, they cannot count a total of three when they were together. And yet they are happy...

If You Want To Be Happy

1974

Horse, Gun, and Free Wind poster
NR

In the 18th century, Moldavian land was under the yoke of foreign invaders and the oppression of local boyars. A national liberation struggle unfolded in the country, in which the Hajduk led by Ataman Badiu actively participated. Boyar Manya, with the help of mercenaries, managed to capture him. But the boyar's daughter, who loved Badiu, gathered a detachment of Hajduk, who freed their chieftain.

Horse, Gun, and Free Wind

1975

Shattered Sky poster
9.0

A son returns to his parents in Lithuania after years of traveling over all USSR and brings with him his Ukrainian wife.

Shattered Sky

1975