Acting

Valentina Ilyashenko

Born 1952-01-12 · Sambor, Lviv region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, (now Ukraine)

Acting credits

The Birthday Present poster
NR

Young revolutionary carried out the attack. She is waiting for a death sentence. Police warden who arrested girl, gives his little son a quite unusual birthday present - takes the boy to the execution.

The Birthday Present

1991

Paradise poster
5.7

A powerful life takeoff. A career breakthrough. A renewed passion in a relationship with a wonderful, smart, beautiful wife. Moving to the elite quarter, to the "thickets" of the local provincial paradise. Victor is showered with gifts of fate, he is happy to an incredible extent. Why is it so difficult for him to accept these gifts?

Paradise

2015

Junk poster
6.4

After a two-year absence Valentin returns home and finds his sister Alisa in a deranged state. It turns out that the girl has long been on the needle. Brother is trying to pull the sister of drug hell, but, unfortunately, Alice dies of an overdose. From that moment Valentin declares ruthless war on drug dealers.

Junk

1990

Premiere in Sosnivka poster
NR

Institute of Culture graduate, a young film director Konstantin Sirotkin, arrives in the village Sosnovka and in the local country club he is trying to put the Schiller's drama "Intrigue and Love". This young director’s work has identified villagers’ talents, their genuine love for the arts and discovered their spiritual beauty.

Premiere in Sosnivka

1986

A Friend of the Deceased poster
5.2

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.

A Friend of the Deceased

1997

Two Families poster
NR

A TV version of a performance by the Ivan Franko Ukrainian Drama Theatre in Kiev, directed by A. Skibenko, based on a play by Mark Kropivnitsky.

Two Families

1978