Viktor Stepanenko

Acting

Viktor Stepanenko

Born — Died

1940-09-02 — 1999-03-04

Place of birth

Gorlovka, Stalinoskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Known for

Born of Revolution poster
6.7

About the struggle between criminal investigators and the criminal world. Based on real events and documents, the film recreates the atmosphere of 1920s Russia, which was swept by a wave of violence... At the heart of the story is the fate and career of a young man who, together with his comrades, is about to make history in Soviet criminal investigation...

Born of Revolution

1974

Batallions Ask for Fire poster
7.3

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

Batallions Ask for Fire

1985

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle poster
7.9

Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

1974

Exile poster
8.5

Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.

Exile

1992

Waves of the Black Sea poster
9.0

The Odesa boys, Petya Bachey and Gavrik Chernoivanenko, are brave and resourceful, finding themselves at the centre of early 20th-century events leading to the October Revolution. They are joined by adult characters like sailor Rodion Zhukov, Petya’s father Vasily, Madame Storozhenko, and Gavrik’s grandfather. As they grow, they experience the revolution, civil war, and become underground fighters during WWII in occupied Odesa.

Waves of the Black Sea

1975

Altunin Makes a Decision poster
8.0

A film novel about a production manager who used to be a worker at a machine-building plant's forge.

Altunin Makes a Decision

1979

Film credits

1990s · 19 titles

Exile poster
8.5

Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.

Exile

1992

For the Family Hearth poster
7.0

The story of the happy couple Aneli and Anton Angarovych. They love each other, love their children and are ready for anything for the well-being of their family hearth. For this reason, Anton gave five years of his life to the service in Bosnia. Anelya solved this problem in her own way: in order to save the dignity and honor of her family, which she tarnished by participating in criminal cases, she committed suicide.

For the Family Hearth

1992

Cossacks Approaching poster
7.0

Ukraine. The end of the XV century. All gunpowder made in factories suddenly disappears. The company of cossacks led by Maksym Trytuz comes together to find one of the transports that carries gunpowder to the Zaporozhian Sich.

Cossacks Approaching

1991

A Melodrama with Attempted Murder poster
10.0

Journalist Tamara Malysheva is deeply unhappy in her personal life with her alcoholic husband, Andrey. The editorial office sends Tamara to a small Ukrainian village to investigate the reasons why a soldier who had just come out of the army stabbed his mother-in-law with an axe and the 11 years of strict prison sentence he received for it. There she meets Yuriy, a man who has been "waiting for her all her life" and with whom she falls in love without looking back. Further events develop.

A Melodrama with Attempted Murder

1992

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

Ransom poster
9.0

Srul Solomonovich Sudaker - "conductor of the symphony orchestra" - a conman who lives not only on retirement. And Eugene really needs money. To redeem his only friend from captivity, he decides to use the abilities of the "conductor".

Ransom

1994

The Kaidash Family poster
NR

Ukraine, the village of Semyhory. Two sons get married in the Kaidash family - Karp and Lavrin. But there is no peace in their home. Constant quarrels in the family between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law force the sons to share their father's property. Native people become enemies when it comes to the distribution of property.

The Kaidash Family

1993

Tales about Ivan poster
NR

The action takes place in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the First World War. The plot - twists and turns of life's journey of the traveler, adventurer, traveling actor and philosopher Ivan Kalita.

Tales about Ivan

1991

Famine-33 poster
6.9

The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.

Famine-33

1991

Dandelions' Bloom poster
NR

Yura, a young man who has served eight years for a minor crime, is released from prison. He finds himself in his village, already in independent Ukraine. On the radio is heard a voice of the first president, who promises Ukrainians the right to a dignified life, and young people in clubs "dance non-Moscow, independent rock 'n' roll". The young man is trying to fit into a new picture of the world, even starting a relationship with a Latvian girl from Moscow. The smell of freedom and international friendship wafts through the air.

Dandelions' Bloom

1992

The Witch poster
3.4

In the Ukrainian village of Konotop, the chief Centurion wants to marry a beautiful girl and asks for the help of a young witch.

The Witch

1990

Melancholic Waltz poster
5.8

It is a screen adaption of the cognominal short story of Olha Kobylianska in which the struggle of the educated women with the bourgeois manners is described. Three girls from one family are very interested in the art and are going to devote a lifetime to it. But it is the beginning of the 20th century with all peculiar to that time disadvantages, and the way to the success is bestrewed with the difficulties.

Melancholic Waltz

1990

Istanbul Transit poster
8.0

Another shipment of drugs arrives in Ukraine from Istanbul in a cargo of expensive carpets. The drug traffickers are closely followed by Interpol officers, whose goal is to uncover the entire chain of the criminal business. But it soon turns out that the criminals have access to the police information. A police officer is involved in the drug trade...

Istanbul Transit

1993

The Way to Sich poster
8.5

At the beginning of the XVII century, events take place preceding the liberation struggle led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. A young boy Pavlo Pokhylenko leaves his native Kaniv to join the Zaporizhian Sich (camp and cossack army) to fight for freedom and the Orthodox faith.

The Way to Sich

1994

Gelli and Nok poster
10.0

Gelli and Nok accidentally find themselves in the same boat and for several days they sail together along the river to the sea. He is a convict fugitive, she is young, outspoken and pure. Gelli managed to bring the disappointed Nock back to life, gave him love and happiness

Gelli and Nok

1995

Niagara poster
7.0

The main character works as a model and like many women who are related to art, she is keen with struggle for the women rights and other trends. But those are just attempts to compensate the lack of the personal life. However, fate gives her the chance and sends her a modest man, so different from her bohemian environment.

Niagara

1991

About Crazy Love, a Sniper and an Astronaut poster
NR

Male opera singer and female debutante are madly in love. Unfortunately, their love is threatened by Spaceman, who is also in love with debutante, and then by eerie Sniper.

About Crazy Love, a Sniper and an Astronaut

1992

Marrying Death poster
7.9

End of the 1930s. The times of Stalin's terror. Lieutenant Scherbakov got the order to shoot several "enemies of the people". Unexpectedly, a rural wedding found itself at the crime scene. Pursuant to the instruction, witnesses were also eliminated...

Marrying Death

1992

Passion poster
6.0

Based on the story of Marko Vovchok "Pavlо Chornokryl". Pavlo Chornokryl, passionate about young beauty Varka, kills his wife Anna for the opportunity to be with her mistress.

Passion

1999

1980s · 15 titles

Love For Your Neighbor poster
3.5

The film consists of two short stories: "Monument" and "Love for Neighbor".

Love For Your Neighbor

1988

The Wedding Is Accused poster
5.2

The wedding turns into a crime scene. The wedding is like the apotheosis of meaninglessness, a metaphor for society. The story of the generation of the eighties with a tragic ending. The film uses the true facts of the criminal case.

The Wedding Is Accused

1986

Batallions Ask for Fire poster
5.6

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

Batallions Ask for Fire

1985

It's Not Always Summer in Crimea poster
10.0

The film is dedicated to Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, the younger brother of V.I. Lenin, a professional revolutionary, doctor and creator of the first Soviet sanatoriums and rest homes in the Crimea.

It's Not Always Summer in Crimea

1988

Three poster
NR

A life and problems of a three teenagers playing hockey.

Three

1985

We Take Everything Upon Ourselves poster
6.0

During the final months of the World War II, a group of special forces sailors, under the command of Lieutenant Balandin, receives a secret order of special importance to destroy enemy tankers, seaplanes and gun installations to ensure the free landing of their troops.

We Take Everything Upon Ourselves

1981

Tenderness for the Roaring Beast poster
4.5

Based on the novel of the same name by A. Bakhvalov. The plot is based on a story-interview about the testing of the new strategic missile carrier Tu-22K and Tu-22M2/M3 (for well-known reasons, in close-ups, instead of them, the film shot the then less secret Tu-134 UBL - a combat training laboratory) and the tragic events associated with them, given to journalist Odintsov by test pilot Borovsky. Testing of a new jet aircraft, the psychology of human life, the problems and joys of life of pilots - all this is closely intertwined in the film. The heroes of the film - friends test pilots Dolotov and Sanin - have walked together all their lives. But it so happened that one of them, Dolotov, was once unfairly suspended from flying, while Sanin failed to protect and support his friend. Friends' paths diverged...

Tenderness for the Roaring Beast

1982

Old Letters poster
3.0

Upon returning from the front, Ivan Lukich discovered that his wife had been unfaithful to him. He left her and their daughter. Later, Ivan attempted to locate them, but was unsuccessful. Years passed. He now has another family, grown children, and a grandson. Quite by chance, he encounters Lisa, his daughter, who is convinced that her father died at the front.

Old Letters

1981

Three Cartridges From an English Carbine poster
NR

The film takes place on the territory of Ukraine. In the autumn of 1922, Volokh's gang committed another heinous crime. The investigation of the brutal murder of a rural teacher has been entrusted to district police officers led by Tikhon Globa.

Three Cartridges From an English Carbine

1984

Klymko poster
7.0

Village boy Klimko, accompanying his father to the front, stays with his stepmother. In the occupied village, the hero cannot see his friends. Having survived hunger, injuries and loneliness, the boy enters a vocational school - nine kilometers from the village - and works with new friends for the front...

Klymko

1983

Coast Warning poster
NR

A natural disaster is approaching the city—weather forecasters report that a hurricane is coming. In this extreme situation, the complete incompetence of the people who are duty-bound to do everything possible to save the city from destruction has become apparent. The situation is further complicated by the fact that there is a large chemical plant in the city, the explosion of which would result in heavy casualties. The director of the plant, Gorev, decides to shut down the plant...

Coast Warning

1988

Warmth of the Chilly Earth poster
NR

The foreman Chernykh and drilling foreman Marich carry out the most rational transportation of equipment in the extreme conditions of the North, introducing new progressive drilling technology.

Warmth of the Chilly Earth

1984

Find Your Home poster
NR

The reckless student from a vocational school, Senya Bashkin, is heading to his internship in the very village where he was raised in an orphanage.

Find Your Home

1982

Punchy Man poster
NR

The new young director of the car depot shows energy and the ability to come to an agreement with everyone for the common good, but his principle “you - for me, I - for you” has not yet been approved by the car depot team...

Punchy Man

1980

A Tale of a Loud Drum poster
7.0

A tale of a twelve years old Larik, one of the young heroes of Civil War in Russia.

A Tale of a Loud Drum

1987

1970s · 19 titles

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle poster
7.9

Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

1974

Days of the Turbins poster
6.1

Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins".

Days of the Turbins

1976

Where are you, Knights? poster
3.0

Young musician Zhenya Kovalchuk falls in love with aerobatic pilot Yulia. The feeling is mutual, but Yulia cannot bring herself to reveal her feelings to Zhenya. Then the famous, but not yet elderly, Doctor of Science Kressovsky, who also hopes for Yulia's affection, stands in his way. The two suitors clash with their swords, and the duel ends with the doctor being wounded. The doctor intrigues, and Zhenya faces expulsion from the institute.

Where are you, Knights?

1971

A Train to a Distant August poster
7.5

A participant in the war with the fascist regime, a Soviet soldier Chigorin, who bravely fought in Odessa, decides to return to the black sea city and walk through the memorable places where a lot of blood of brave defenders was shed for every inch of land. On the train, a random companion of the man becomes Katya, a charming young girl who asks Chigorin to tell about those events. Going headfirst into the memories, the former soldier begins his story, in which there is a place for selflessness, friendship, mutual assistance, love and heroism…

A Train to a Distant August

1971

Equilibrist poster
6.0

Circus artist Yuri Ostashenko, who lost his arm during World War II, returns to his beloved city and manages to return to his beloved profession.

Equilibrist

1976

Here We Live poster
NR

The film depicts the challenging daily life of rural workers.

Here We Live

1973

My Sons' Day poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

My Sons' Day

1972

Don't Cry, Girl poster
NR

Conscript Andrey Vorobey dreams of serving in the army. However, to his disappointment, the medical commission declares Andrey unfit for military service. Nevertheless, he is determined to test himself in challenging conditions and goes to a southern state farm, where he volunteers for the hardest jobs...

Don't Cry, Girl

1977

He Foretells Victory poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

He Foretells Victory

1979

Rain in a Foreign City poster
7.0

Based on the novel of the same name by Daniil Granin. Engineer Chizhegov often travels on business to a small town, where he meets a woman who reciprocates his feelings. The protagonist faces a difficult problem: he is married, and his family lives in Leningrad. Unable to make a final decision and afraid of losing his beloved, he commits a despicable act. His remorse comes too late—Chizhegov loses the woman who was truly dear to him forever.

Rain in a Foreign City

1979

Kashtanka poster
5.0

The lost dog Kashtanka is picked up on the street by circus actor Monsieur Georges. He gives her a new name - Aunt and, having prepared a number with her, begins to perform in the circus. Their performances are very successful.

Kashtanka

1975

Each Evening After Work poster
NR

School of working youth. A new teacher of Russian language and literature comes here. Soon, Yelena Nikolayevna realizes that it is impossible to make concessions to adult students who are tired after work, but you need to interest them, awaken in them a desire to learn.

Each Evening After Work

1974

Mutinous Orion poster
NR

In February 1918, the Russian ship Orion, carrying weapons for two divisions, is delayed in Plymouth due to the Russian Revolution. The British order it to Arkhangelsk, but it secretly sails to Vladivostok. Pursued by the British, a German submarine, and with a divided crew, the Orion raises the red flag upon reaching Russia. However, Vladivostok is controlled by interventionists, so the ship fights back to sea and delivers weapons to coastal partisans.

Mutinous Orion

1979

Comrade Brigade poster
8.0

The action takes place in one of the major port cities of the North. Young welder Mark Talalin and foreman Ilya Besedin cannot find the true reasons for their disagreements and conflicts.

Comrade Brigade

1974

Far Away, Across the River poster
NR

Ukraine, 1920s. A gang of enemies of the Soviet government is rampaging in the village. Returning home, wounded 15-year-old Red Army soldier Fedya Panko decides to neutralize the enemy, who, as it turns out, operates not only on the battlefield.

Far Away, Across the River

1976

Tachanka from the South poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tachanka from the South

1978

White Circle poster
8.0

About the struggle of steelworkers and residents of the city of Mariupol against the German fascist invaders during World War II.

White Circle

1974

Have You Seen Petka? poster
8.5

The chairman of the collective farm, Yuri Sergeyevich, has no rest - and all because of the boys, whose main instigator is Petka, dreams of space flights are overwhelming. With his ideas, he gives a lot of trouble to adults, and they decide to entrust him with a "serious" business ...

Have You Seen Petka?

1976

Fire poster
NR

About the 1930s—the early years of the Stakhanovite movement. The heroes of the film are steelworkers, who were among the first participants in the socialist competition.

Fire

1974

1960s · 7 titles

To the Attention of Citizens and Organizations poster
NR

Eight-year-old Kirill has big problems: he struggles at school, his parents are boring, and he has nowhere to put his lame stray dog. In short, he is at odds with the whole world. Then he meets journalist Vadim, who is easy to get along with and interesting. Vadim's interest is genuine — after all, Kirill is named after his deceased friend.

To the Attention of Citizens and Organizations

1966

Weeds poster
7.0

David Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the changes caused by the revolutionary events. But he cannot see no improvement. The village is ruled by the kulaks and David's childhood friend Kornii Matiukha helps them.

Weeds

1967

Anetta poster
NR

A new cook, an elderly woman, arrived on the fishing vessel. The sailors, who had expected to see a young woman, were disappointed, but her care for the crew and her kind smile eventually won everyone over. The guys started calling her "mommy." One day, Anetta saw a "seasoned sailor" mocking the young first mate. Anetta was outraged and left the ship. Her actions made the crew see themselves in a different light.

Anetta

1967

Lushka poster
NR

The taxi driver Lushka falls in love and, for the sake of that love, is ready to change her life just to be close to the man she loves. It turns out that her chosen one is a criminal. Yet she does not rush to lose hope. Now she understands that, for the sake of love, she must change another person – and she's going for it.

Lushka

1964

Hello, Gnat! poster
9.5

During the construction of an oil pipeline, an unexploded bottom mine was discovered. The dangerous situation brings back memories of wartime events for diver Gnat.

Hello, Gnat!

1963

Flower on the Stone poster
4.6

Set in a new mining town in the Donets Coal Basin, it centres on a clash between the young miners, the political establishment, and a religious cult lead by a devious Pentecostal evangelist infiltrated into the community who tries to make the workers fall under his influence.

Flower on the Stone

1963

Viper poster
6.4

The dramatic story of the merchant's daughter, who became a brave fighter of the cavalry squadron of the red Army, later could not find herself in a peaceful life

Viper

1966

Series credits

Born of Revolution poster
6.7

About the struggle between criminal investigators and the criminal world. Based on real events and documents, the film recreates the atmosphere of 1920s Russia, which was swept by a wave of violence... At the heart of the story is the fate and career of a young man who, together with his comrades, is about to make history in Soviet criminal investigation...

Born of Revolution

1974

Batallions Ask for Fire poster
7.3

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

Batallions Ask for Fire

1985

Waves of the Black Sea poster
9.0

The Odesa boys, Petya Bachey and Gavrik Chernoivanenko, are brave and resourceful, finding themselves at the centre of early 20th-century events leading to the October Revolution. They are joined by adult characters like sailor Rodion Zhukov, Petya’s father Vasily, Madame Storozhenko, and Gavrik’s grandfather. As they grow, they experience the revolution, civil war, and become underground fighters during WWII in occupied Odesa.

Waves of the Black Sea

1975

Waves of the Black Sea poster
9.0

The Odesa boys, Petya Bachey and Gavrik Chernoivanenko, are brave and resourceful, finding themselves at the centre of early 20th-century events leading to the October Revolution. They are joined by adult characters like sailor Rodion Zhukov, Petya’s father Vasily, Madame Storozhenko, and Gavrik’s grandfather. As they grow, they experience the revolution, civil war, and become underground fighters during WWII in occupied Odesa.

Waves of the Black Sea

1975

Altunin Makes a Decision poster
8.0

A film novel about a production manager who used to be a worker at a machine-building plant's forge.

Altunin Makes a Decision

1979

Love Island poster
6.0

The series consists of ten films based on love and erotic works of Ukrainian literature from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. The films explore love as a multidimensional phenomenon. This is a kind of retrospective slice of the history of society, culture, and art. There are changes in the attitude towards a woman, mother, lover.

Love Island

1995

War in the Western Direction poster
7.2

A military epic based on Ivan Stadnyuk's novel of the same name about the tragic events of the first months of the WWII.

War in the Western Direction

1990

The Days of the Turbins poster
8.0

Winter of 1918-1919. The power in the city passes from the hetman to the Directorate of Ukraine, then from Petliura to the Bolsheviks. Turbins and their acquaintances have to make their choice. Colonel Alexei Turbin and his brother Nicholas remain loyal to the White Movement and bravely defend it, without worrying about their lives. Elena's (née Turbin) husband, Vladimir Talberg flees shamefully from the city with the retreating German troops. In this troubled time, the family and close friends gather and celebrate the New Year. A strange and slightly ridiculous person comes to visit them, a distant relative of the Turbins: Larion Surzhansky

The Days of the Turbins

1976