Vitaliy Shapovalov

Acting

Vitaliy Shapovalov

Born — Died

1939-05-01 — 2017-11-14

Place of birth

Yurkovka, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

25 titles

Known for

Fuse poster
7.6

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

Fuse

1962

Dead Souls poster
8.0

Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.

Dead Souls

1984

Outrage poster
NR

The action takes place in the 1920s. It is about the everyday work of criminal investigation staff in a provincial town, who are engaged in an unyielding battle against a well-organized gang of murderers and robbers.

Outrage

1979

The Humble Cemetery poster
5.4

The main character Vorobei is a professional grave digger and alcohol addict, who runs away from hospital to dig graves instead of treating his head broken by his brother. He comes to cemetery and keeps on working, instead of his friends' advice to stay in the hospital. The world of death turns out to be surrounded by corruption, satanic money-making, cemetery mafia and lots of vodka.

The Humble Cemetery

1989

Déjà vu poster
6.8

After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow him to Odessa, USSR. Upon arrival, Pollack loses his memory and goes on various adventures with a group of thick-headed Odessa locals who think he is a harmless butterfly collector.

Déjà vu

1990

Lenin in Paris poster
4.4

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.

Lenin in Paris

1981

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 9 titles

The Humble Cemetery poster
5.4

The main character Vorobei is a professional grave digger and alcohol addict, who runs away from hospital to dig graves instead of treating his head broken by his brother. He comes to cemetery and keeps on working, instead of his friends' advice to stay in the hospital. The world of death turns out to be surrounded by corruption, satanic money-making, cemetery mafia and lots of vodka.

The Humble Cemetery

1989

Lenin in Paris poster
4.4

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.

Lenin in Paris

1981

The Bearskin for Sale poster
NR

A television film based on the story of the same name by Valentin Rasputin. The hunter Vasil kills the bear. The surviving bear rushes to the hunter and gets injured. And now the abominable wounded beast pursues man.

The Bearskin for Sale

1980

The Woman in White poster
6.3

Young aspiring artist gets a place as a teacher of painting on the estate of land-owner Fairlie, where his sisters Marian and Laura become his students. Returning home late in the evening, he unexpectedly meets a strange woman, dressed head-to-toe in white on a deserted road.

The Woman in White

1981

Ten Days That Shook the World poster
NR

A folk performance in two acts with pantomime, buffoonery, and shooting, performed by the troupe of the Drama and Comedy Theater on Taganka.

Ten Days That Shook the World

1987

Perfil and Foma poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perfil and Foma

1985

The Precipice poster
8.0

Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...

The Precipice

1984

On the Eve of Departure poster
NR

A test mechanic at a tractor plant resolutely opposes defectors and fulfilling the plan at any cost.

On the Eve of Departure

1986

No Great Loss... poster
5.5

Six people get stuck in a lift. No one comes to help them, as the dispatcher who shut down the lift and all the neighbours are passionately watching a football match being broadcast. At first, the characters in the film fight, but when the lift doors open, they don't want to get out...

No Great Loss...

1983

1970s · 5 titles

In the azure steppe poster
7.0

Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.

In the azure steppe

1971

What the Hell Do You Want? poster
NR

A satirical story of how spouses Misha and Masha chase fashion.

What the Hell Do You Want?

1975

Fearless Ataman poster
9.0

A biographical novella based on I. Vsevolzhsky's novel "Hutor's Team".

Fearless Ataman

1973

Summer Dreams poster
5.0

Grandfather Sliva, an unthinkable braggart and confounder, has these strange dreams. Then he dreamed of chivalrous times, of musketeer duels between Stepney Kazantz and Serafimushka Seagull against masked opponents. Then the old man saw himself in the form of a mysterious spy, immediately starting a scuffle with cowboys drinking beer and shooting at barrels. Grandfather Sliva should not sleep, but guard the young Masha Chubukova, who was in charge of the local amateur activity, as if the girl had not been stolen by the same Stepan and Seraphim, who had fallen in love at first sight until they were unconscious.

Summer Dreams

1973

The Road Home poster
8.0

A story about the fate of a woman who has traveled a thorny path from unrequited love to family happiness.

The Road Home

1970

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