
Acting
Anton Dunaiskyi
Born 1895-12-19
Acting credits
7.5Cheerful and mischievous lad Gritsko offers young Parasya his hand and his heart on the first day of the fair in Sorochyntsi. The girl's father, Cherevik, presents no objection – her stepmother, however, is furious, and refuses to recognise their relationship; Cherevik drunkenly relents. Gritsko alone bemoans his sadness, whereupon a gypsy presents him a deal – Gritsko will sell his oxen to the gypsy if the latter can successfully make Parasya's parents accept their union.
The Fair at Sorochyntsi
1939
8.0This is a dramatic story of the restoration of the mines after the liberation of Donbass from the Nazis during the Second World War.
A Great Life, Part 2
1946
NRPost-war reconstruction. New residents turn on their first television in their new apartment—a bulky bandura with a tiny screen. On the screen are Tarapunka and Shtepsel, who promise a real revue — more precisely, a tour of Kyiv. But how can you do a tour if you can't see anything from here, Tarapunka reasonably asks. They decide to climb the radio transmission tower.
Tarapunka and Shtepsel Under the Clouds
1953
NRThe struggle of an honest, innovative plant breeder against bureaucrats.
Makar Nechay
1940
2.8This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
How the Steel Was Tempered
1942
5.0The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than most is Olena, a Soviet partisan who returns to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruelest of arbitrary tortures at the hands of the Nazis.
Rainbow
1944
3.8648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytskyi gathers the army of defenders of the motherland.
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
1941
5.5The son of an obstinate mayor cannot get his father's consent to wed the beautiful Hanna. He receives unexpected assistance from evil, mysterious forces – Satan, witches, and rusalki – who work together to bring the couple happiness, bringing mayhem and celebration.
May Night, or the Drowned Maiden
1953
5.0The film tells about the heroic struggle of Ukrainian farmers-partisans with nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic war.
Guerrillas in the steppes of Ukraine
1943