Dmytro Karpa
Acting
Biography
Participated in the Civil War (1918-1921), worked as ambassador of the Ukrainian SSR in Poland (until 1924). In 1923 he graduated from the screen department of the Higher Courses of Cinema in Warsaw. Played at the Kiev theater under the direction of P.Saksaganskiy (1917). Worked in cinema since 1923.
Born: November 7, 1898
Place of Birth: Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Known For
Костёр бессмертия
How Many Years, How Many Winters!
Loneliness
Soviet propaganda film on the struggle against counter-revolution in Tambov region in the first years of Soviet power.
The Lost Letter
Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg.
The Kyiv Resident
The story of the growing up of the orphan Gali between the Revolution and the Great Patriotic War. Large-scale historical drama with Nina Ivanova.
Nesterka
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
Vasya, the Reformer
Lost film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (his first film) and Favst Lopatynskyi. It is a satire of the NEP period. Vasia, the son of a factory’s worker, is attracted by the romance of adventures. And he goes to look for them. He saves a drowning drunkard who tries to beat him. Vasia escapes from him in a vehicle parked on the shore. However, the vehicle belongs to a superintendent who, when he does not find it, stages its theft. Meanwhile, Vasia exposes priests in the church. As a result, the church is turned into a cinema, and the priest becomes a cinema technician. And finally, Vasia’s last deed is catching a criminal at home and denouncing him to the militia.
At Any Price
A story of the adventures of two young boys during WWII.
Viy
A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.
Filmography
as Kurskiy
as priest
as Storyteller
as дедушка Тодар
as Foma Kuzmich
as Overko
as дедушка Тодар
as papa Lyuby
as Главный генерал буржуинов
as Лев Петрович, администратор
as Foma
as Mefodiy
as Шапуваленко, ткач
as prisoner of war
as dedushka Levko
as рабочий завода «Арсенал»
as granddad Sashka
as Peasant
as бригадир
as Zubatov
as Ivan Svistunov, matros
as Old man
as a colonel
as Grandfather
as Guest at the wedding
as Barber
as The devil
as Babysitter
as Motnia
as passenger
as Passenger (uncredited)
as Toys salesman
as Singer
as Supply manager of the Sheluhasindicate
as Peasant