Vitaliy Shapovalov

Acting

Vitaliy Shapovalov

Born 1939-05-01 · Yurkovka, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Acting credits

No artwork available
4.4

This light, hilarious story, sparkling with good-natured humour, will amuse both children and their parents. Our Vovochka is not the hero of popular anecdotes, but a real-life ten-year-old boy, spontaneous and indefatigable, an ever-inventive daredevil, who happens to be quite a handful for the grown-ups around him. With Vovochka’s arrival at his country place on the eve of the New Year holidays, the life of that quiet suburban Moscow town blows up, in both literal and figurative sense…

Vovochka

2002

Boris Godunov poster
NR

Based on the eponymous drama by A.S. Pushkin. TV version of the performance by the Drama and Comedy Theatre on Taganka (director Yuri Lyubimov).

Boris Godunov

1999

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

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

Mister Twister poster
NR

The screenplay is based on the short story of the same name by Vil Lipatov. It tells the story of a man with a difficult past who comes to a village in search of happiness, hoping to do good for others to the best of his abilities and talents.

Mister Twister

1969

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

Mystery-Bouffe poster
NR

Based on Mayakovsky's twentieth-century morality play, in which workers receive the awards of the blessed, and monarchs and capitalist politicians are consigned to eternal damnation.

Mystery-Bouffe

1969

Lost in Siberia poster
5.0

The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.

Lost in Siberia

1991

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

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 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

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

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

Perfil and Foma poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Perfil and Foma

1985

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

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

Fearless Ataman poster
9.0

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

Fearless Ataman

1973

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

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 Appointment poster
NR

The protagonists of the film are construction workers. Though they differ in character, they are united by a shared passion for discovery, purity of intention, and emotional depth. Civil engineer Kidin, a creative soul, fights for a revision of the prefab housing plant project. Can a person truly be happy if they pursue only a narrowly defined personal happiness?

The Appointment

1974

Clan poster
6.0

Two Moscow investigators, investigating the corruption case, become a serious obstacle for the southern mafia. Trying to interfere with the investigators, the criminals go to any lengths - from the murder of dangerous witnesses to the intervention in the investigation of Leonid Brezhnev.

Clan

1992

No artwork available
5.4

Three days in bright May Moscow. Three days, when Senior Lieutenant Pechalin, who has long forgotten the smell of peaceful life, will again feel all its charm. Meet with an old friend Gaevsky, fall in love with a casual acquaintance Victoria, celebrate Victory Day with her and dance a romantic waltz on the Bolshoi Theater Square...

May

2007

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

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