
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Acting
Biography
Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk (Ukrainian: Іван Васильович Миколайчук) was a Ukrainian soviet actor, producer, and screen writer from Ukraine. He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (Тіні забутих предків) (1964), based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's book of the same name. He received the Komsomol prize of Ukraine in 1967, and the title of Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1968. He posthumously received the Taras Shevchenko prize.
Born: June 15, 1941
Place of Birth: Chertoriya, Chernovitskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Known For

Kyiv Melodies
The action of the film takes place in winter Kyiv. After a sleepless night, a young composer goes for a walk through a snowy city in search of inspiration for a new melody; its route passes against the background of many sights of the capital. On the way, the hero observes city life and nature, people, near the maternity hospital he pulls out a happy young father who has fallen into a coma, and he notices a girl in a trolleybus. She is in a hurry in her affairs, and the enthusiastic composer follows her relentlessly. And every sound he hears becomes part of a new melody for him. The finale of the film is a panorama of Kyiv to the song "Two Colors".

Discover Yourself
Documentary about the famous Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhoriy Skovoroda, which was banned by Soviet censorship. The film only reached the screens 15 years later, during Perestroika era.

Ivan Mykolaichuk. Dedication
The story of life and death of actor Ivan Mykolaychuk - the legend of Ukrainian poetic cinema. The film is stylized as Vertep Christmas mystery: the heroes are explaining themselves with the roles they play.

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.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart.

Liberation: The Fire Bulge
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.

To Remember

Liberation: Breakthrough
Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.

Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich', 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt'.

The Legend of Princess Olga
The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince Ihor and became his successor on the throne after his murder and one of the most remarkable political leaders in early medieval European history. She converted to Christianity and brought her realm into Europe.
Filmography
as self
as archivefootage
as Pavlo Zhmenyak
as Volodymyr I Svyatoslavych
as Kurochka
as Grigor Korchak
as Uncle Leo / Wood Goblin
as Fabian
as Simokhin
as Rusin
as Writer
as Vakula
as Joko
as Alexey Luganov
as (voice)
as Vasyl, the cossack
as Bayan
as Lyubomir
as Petro Dzvonar
as Gromov
as Roman
as Sergeant Savchuk
as Levko, a serf lackey of Countess Evelina Hanska
as Kurganov
as Savchuk
as Mykola
as Composer
as David Motuzka
as Ivan Paliychuk
as Taras Shevchenko