
Acting
Yurii Mazhuha
Born 1931-04-13 · Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Acting credits
9.0The fishery supervision employee is killed. During the investigation the public law enforcement official has looked out on the trace of the illegal grouping which has serious reasons for the commission of more considerable crimes than the illegal animals killings.
Silent Shores
1973
4.2Irina Kupchenko stars in this psychological drama by the renowned director/writer team of Yuli Raizman and Yevgeny Gabrilovich. In the story, she is the entirely respectable wife of a career diplomat, with a teenaged son. Suddenly one day, she decides to leave her marriage and go live with her lover.
A Strange Woman
1978
NRA forester tends to his ailing wife. The sudden arrival of guests who have come for a hunt prompts him to recall how they met—their shared quadrille, and everything that followed.
Quadrille
1980
NRThe 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
NRAn unprecedented piece of news spreads through the village: a comrades’ court is to be held between collective farm brigade leader Yakiv Brus and an old woman named Motria, whom he struck on the head. The village club fills with people eager to sort out what seems to be every pressing issue at once.
The Literate Man
1987
7.1A parable centering on an old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs. His wellspring, once a source of joy and hope for thirsty passersby, is now rarely used. No longer able to find comfort in his memories, he turns all his photographs to face the walls.
A Spring for the Thirsty
1965
4.7A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime
Lessons at the End of Spring
1990
9.0The February Revolution did not bring the desired peace to the trenches. Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, deceived by Kerensky's government, are dying on the slopes of the Carpathians. But the words of Bolshevik truth penetrate the trenches, and the soldiers refuse to go to the slaughter. Among the front-line soldiers returning home is a young Ukrainian named Taras Holota. He dreams of joyful reunions, but instead attends the funeral of his mother, who was killed by the Haidamaks. The landless peasantry is starving, and Golota rallies his fellow villagers to divide up the landowners' fields...
The Truth
1957
5.1A story of two delinquent boys at a boarding school, struggling to cope with fathers who abandoned them, and retreating into fantasy.
A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers
1979
NRMariana Kudel, the best milkmaid at the Trud collective farm, actively criticizes the conservative chairman, and as a result, she now works with the worst cows. She is clearly opposed by Katya Kvitko, the record holder for milk production, who is strongly supported by the chairman. Busy with the fuss, Katya pays little attention to her work and quarrels with Vasily, a zootechnician who is in love with her, and her friend Maryana. As a result of her carelessness, the record-breaking cow Volshebnitsa dies. Maryanka works from morning till late at night and soon takes first place. Katya, however, only comes in fifth. Selfless Maryanka loves Vasily, but nevertheless helps him and Katya find each other again...
When Nightingales Sing
1957
9.0The eternal “housing question” in Russia is taken on by Serafimov, a young and principled city council deputy, who is determined to help his constituents. In the end, he manages not only to secure a new building for the veterans of the brick factory—made from the very bricks they once produced—but also to have them all housed under one roof, so they wouldn’t feel the pain of separation after leaving their crowded communal apartments.
The Deputy's Hour
1981
6.7The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the editorial censorship at the studio, and then at Derzhkino. A lot of claims were made against him. The demands for amendments and endless additions and rewrites by the authors lasted for about a year. The original version of the title "Na pokhony!" ("To bow down!") was replaced by "To Dream and to Live". According to Pylyp Ilyenko, the director's eldest son, this name appeared "as a result of censor pressure." Censorship stopped the tape 40 times: at the stage of the literary script, director's, during film tests (the actors were not approved), filming, etc. The film catastrophically fell apart into fragments, into masterfully filmed, but unrelated scenes. The director called the finished version a "dead film".
To Dream and to Live
1974
5.1An intimate drama set in a remote railway station that grows into a tragedy of the whole generation and epoch, based on a Gorki story.
Out of Boredom
1968
3.0Katya and Grisha lived in a big city. Grisha was older than Katya, but he respected her and did not hide his secrets from her. And I did not notice at all how the girl was growing up and how completely different feelings were born to her.
Katya-Katyusha
1959
4.0The film is based on the stories Anton Chekhov. It is a tribute to the actor Boris Andreyev. He plays a major role that keeps up for the duration of the film. Lively and intelligent Valery Spout largely mitigates underline the drama of the protagonist, while Michael Sveta's role, though small, is bright and memorable.
Soft-Boiled Boots
1978
7.0A Ukrainian poet visiting his emigre cousin is threatened into working for the CIA's operations through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Cancan in an English Park
1985
9.0Long time ago Ukrainian hetman sent his treasures to the British bank, hoping that later Ukraine will get rid of the Moscow yoke and then gold will help Ukrainian people. In modern times KGB agents and foreign spies hunt for hetman's descendant - Ivan Polubotko, guy phlegmatic and narrow-minded, to use him to get the treasure.
Hunt for the Cossack's Gold
1993
7.8Former front-line intelligence officer, captain Nikolai Mityasov, after being wounded, returns to the destroyed city and learns the sad news: his wife Shura cheated on him. Bitterness and confusion gave way to hope. But peace has come, demobilization has begun, it is necessary to restore the homeland. Nikolai finds the strength to continue living, enters a construction institute, meets Valya and begins a new happy life without war...
The City Turns the Lights On
1958
NRYoung specialist Viktor Nefedov is appointed chief engineer of the construction trust. From the first working day, Nefedov struggled to deal with "downtime" at construction sites. However, not everyone likes Victor's innovative ideas.
Difficult Floors
1975
NRTeleplay. Based on the play by A. Arbuzov 'Old-Fashioned Comedy'. The film is based on the performance of the Lesya Ukrainka Russian Drama Theater in Kyiv. The video recording of the performance was made on the stage of the State Academic Maly Theatre of Russia in 1998.
It's Dangerous to Deal with You
1998
A young actor's family is starring in a film about the "beautiful life". But the shooting is over, and we have to return to the bleak reality.
The Holy Family
1996
7.7Having been released from prison, where he was imprisoned for making “fufales” (copies of paintings), the guy decides to start an honest life. But the mafia does not want to lose a good specialist and introduces him to a dancer from a night cabaret...
Fufel
1991
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Responsible for Everything
1972
5.0Genka is a schoolboy from Moscow. Having seen enough American action movies, he longs for adventure and the opportunity to try himself in a real man's business. His imagination is filled with visions of his idols - Schwarzenegger, Stallone, star humanoids - who offer Genka to leave the earth. However, the hero chooses the "region of heaven“ with true idols who restore the concepts of friendship, honor, and love to their noble meaning, which have been devalued today.
In That Region of Heaven…
1992