Vasiliy Shukshin

Vasiliy Shukshin

Birthday: 1929-07-25

Place of Birth: Srostki, Srostinskiy rayon, Sibirskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR

Biography: Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes.

Movies

And in the Morning They Woke Up
And in the Morning They Woke Up

Eight men, eight stories about the morning after party......

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The Red Snowball Tree
The Red Snowball Tree

A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba...

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The Commissar
The Commissar

Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays wit...

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When the Trees Were Tall
When the Trees Were Tall

The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, a...

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They Fought for Their Motherland
They Fought for Their Motherland

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of ...

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We, Two Men
We, Two Men

The village teacher asks the driver Gorlov to take her son, a first-grader, to the city and buy him ...

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Happy-Go-Lucky
Happy-Go-Lucky

On their way to a Black Sea resort, a Siberian tractor driver and his wife make new friends and take...

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By the Lake
By the Lake

The film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world a...

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The Two Fedors
The Two Fedors

At the end of the Second World War, Fedor is demobilized and returns home where he meets a homeless ...

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Yurka, the Pantsless Team
Yurka, the Pantsless Team

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Dauria
Dauria

A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the tim...

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I Wish to Speak
I Wish to Speak

The mayor of a village sees her son killed in a gun accident. A successful, dedicated bureuacrat, sh...

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Alyonka
Alyonka

Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to th...

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The Killers
The Killers

The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his ...

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What Is It, the Sea?
What Is It, the Sea?

An adventures of a young boy in a fishermen village on a sea coast....

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Three Days of Viktor Chernyshyov
Three Days of Viktor Chernyshyov

Mid 20th century. Industry is developing rapidly and the need for workers in factories is growing. A...

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A Simple Story
A Simple Story

The war was over. Like many of her female friends, Sasha Potapova was left a widow. It was hard livi...

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Men's Talk
Men's Talk

Sasha Larionov, is in the eighth grade and still doesn't know that his mother has left the family. S...

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Mishka, Seryoga and I
Mishka, Seryoga and I

Three friends are bored in eighth grade but everything changes after a new teacher arrives to the cl...

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Liberation: The Battle of Berlin
Liberation: The Battle of Berlin

In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stali...

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If You Want To Be Happy
If You Want To Be Happy

Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei i...

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Mission
Mission

Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking...

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The Golden Echelon
The Golden Echelon

1919 year. There is a civil war in Siberia. Taking advantage of the complete confusion, Admiral Kolc...

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The Journalist
The Journalist

A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written com...

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Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi...

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Liberation: Breakthrough
Liberation: Breakthrough

Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhi...

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Reports from Lebyazhye
Reports from Lebyazhye

Ivan Baikalov, the secretary of the District Committee, is the first person to come to him with any ...

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Echo of Distant Snows
Echo of Distant Snows

The movie takes place in the late 1930s in the Far East. A group of pioneering surveyors led by Kiri...

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Lyubov Yarovaya
Lyubov Yarovaya

The years of civil war. Teacher Lyubov Yarovaya is on the side of the revolution. Her husband Mikhai...

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The Silence of Pelešjan
The Silence of Pelešjan

A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan....

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