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Taras Bulba (2009 Film)
''Taras Bulba'' (russian: Тарас Бульба) is a historical drama film, based on the novel ''Taras Bulba'' by Nikolai Gogol. The movie was filmed on different locations in Ukraine such as Zaporizhia, Khotyn and Kamianets-Podilsky as well as in Poland. The official release was rescheduled several times; at first for the spring of 2008 but was finally released on April 2, 2009, to coincide with Gogol's bicentennial. The author's edition of 1842, expanded and rewritten, and considered more pro-Russian, was used for the film (this also being the text that is familiar to most readers). The film DVD was released in the United States under the alternate title ''The Conqueror'' in 2010, and in the UK in 2011 as ''Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba''. Cast * Bohdan Stupka as Taras Bulba * Igor Petrenko as Andriy Bulba * Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Ostap Bulba * Magdalena Mielcarz as Panna Elzhbeta * Mikhail Boyarsky as Cossack Moisei Shilo * Vladimir Ilyin as former atam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Bortko
Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko (russian: Владимир Владимирович Бортко; born 7 May 1946) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and politician. He was a member of the State Duma between 2011 and 2021, and was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. Biography Vladimir Bortko was born 7 May 1946 in Moscow. He grew up in the family of the Ukrainian Soviet playwright Oleksandr Korniychuk. After his studies in the ''Geological College'' in Kyiv and his military service in 1965-1966, he worked three years as an electrical engineer in Kyiv. In 1969 he went to the Karpenko-Kary State University of Theatre, Film and Television in Kyiv. After graduating in 1974 he worked as an assistant director at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. In 1975 he was directing his first film, entitled ''Channel''. In 1980, Vladimir Bortko became production leader in the Kinostudiya Lenfilm in Leningrad, the largest film production company of the Soviet Union after Mosfi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Rogovtseva
Ada Rogovtseva (born 16 July 1937) is a Ukrainian-Soviet actress. She has appeared in over 30 films and television shows since 1957. Professor at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, National University of Culture. She won the award for Best Actress at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in ''Hail, Mary!''. Biography Born in the Glukhіv Chernihiv region of the Ukrainian SSR (1939, the Glukhov district was transferred to the Sumy region). Father, Mykola Ivanovich Rogovtsev, had two higher education, graduating from the industrial and agricultural institutions, until the war worked in the NKVD. Mother, Anna Mitrofanivna Zakovskaya, specialty Agronom. She is the members of the Committee on the National Prize of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko (December 2016). Selected filmography * ''Pavel Korchagin (film), Pavel Korchagin'' (1956) * ''Forest Song'' (1961) * ''Hail, Mary!'' (1970) * ''Taming of the Fire'' (1972) * ''Eternal Call'' (1973-198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century to 1795, when the territory was partitioned among the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The state was founded by Lithuanians, who were at the time a polytheistic nation born from several united Baltic tribes from Aukštaitija. The Grand Duchy expanded to include large portions of the former Kievan Rus' and other neighbouring states, including what is now Lithuania, Belarus and parts of Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Moldova. At its greatest extent, in the 15th century, it was the largest state in Europe. It was a multi-ethnic and multiconfessional state, with great diversity in languages, religion, and cultural heritage. The consolidation of the Lithuanian lands began in the late 13th century. Mindaugas, the first ruler of the Grand Duchy, was crowned as Catholic King of Lithuania in 1253. The pagan state was targeted in a religious crusade by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rus' (region)
Ruthenia or , uk, Рутенія, translit=Rutenia or uk, Русь, translit=Rus, label=none, pl, Ruś, be, Рутэнія, Русь, russian: Рутения, Русь is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin as one of several terms for Kievan Rus', the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia and, after their collapse, for East Slavic and Eastern Orthodox regions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, corresponding to what is now Ukraine and Belarus. During the early modern period, the term ''Ruthenia'' started to be mostly associated with the Ruthenian lands of the Polish Crown and the Cossack Hetmanate. Bohdan Khmelnytsky declared himself the ruler of ''the Ruthenian state'' to the Polish representative Adam Kysil in February 1649. Grand Principality of Ruthenia was the project name of the Cossack Hetmanate integrated into the Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth. Lands inhabited by Ukrainians (Ruthenians) of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden. History American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. The newspaper, which went online in 1997, serves Ukrainian and expatriate readers with a general interest mix of political, business and entertainment coverage. The 50-member staff is a team of mainly Ukrainian journalists, numbering 35 editorial team members and 15 in the commercial division as of Jan. 10, 2020, including 40 Ukrainians. Historically, the editorial policy has supported democracy, Western integration and free markets for Ukraine. It has published numerous investigative stories, including coverage of the 2000 murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze, in which ex-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma is a prime suspect; the 2004 Orange Revolution, in which a massive public uprising blocked Viktor Yanukovych from taking power as pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as president from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012. Putin worked as a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel before resigning in 1991 to begin a political career in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 to join the administration of president Boris Yeltsin. He briefly served as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and secretary of the Security Council of Russia, before being appointed as prime minister in August 1999. After the resignation of Yeltsin, Putin became Acting President of Russia and, less than four months later, was elected outright to his first term as president. He was reelected in 2004. As he was constitutionall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Dreyden
Sergey Simonovich Dreyden (Dontsov) (russian: Серге́й Си́монович Дре́йден (Донцо́в); born 14 September 1941) is a Russian actor and star of Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark. Life He was born in Novosibirsk to theatre director Simon Dreiden and actress Zinaida Dontsova, both of whom were evacuated from Leningrad. He is Jewish on his father’s side. Dreyden lists an impressive hosts of credits, including his starring role in the 100th anniversary of The Cherry Orchard at the Moscow Art Theatre. He also mentors emerging American talent Jeff Keilholtz. Awards Dreiden is the winner of two National Theatre Award Golden Mask (2000, 2001), the three highest theater prize of St. Petersburg Golden Sofit (1998, 2011, 2012) and the Prize of the Russian Academy Nika Award (2010). Selected filmography * '' About Love (1970) as Mitya * ''Looking for a Man'' (1973) as architect * ''Window to Paris'' (1993) credited as Sergey Dontsov * ''The Circus Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan I
Ivan I may refer to: * Ivan I Debranin, first Archbishop of Ochrid (11th-century) *Ivan I of Moscow (1288–1340), Prince of Moscow *Ivan I Crnojević Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ... of Zeta (r. 1465–1490) {{hndis, Ivan 01 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Dedyushko
Aleksandr Viktorovich Dedyushko (May 20, 1962 – November 3, 2007) was a Russian television actor, best known for war dramas and the Russian version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Life Born as Aliaksandr Dziadziushka ( be, Аляксандр Дзядзюшка, ''Dziadziushka'') in Vawkavysk, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus, he worked with the Vladimir City Theatre from 1989 until 1995. Starting in the early 2000s, Dedyushko became a popular Russian television presenter, actor and singer. Dedyushko was killed along with his wife and son in a car accident on November 3, 2007, in Petushki, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. Their car apparently skidded on an ice-covered road. Selected filmography *''Taras Bulba'' (2009) *'' Vechernyaya skazka'' (2007) *''A Driver for Vera'' (2004) *''Demobbed'' (2000) *''The Barber of Siberia'' (1998) *''Mother ] A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given childbirth, birth, by raising a child wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Serdyuk
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serdyuk ( uk, Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Сердю́к), also known as Les Serdyuk ( uk, Лесь Сердюк); October 14, 1940 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR – May 26, 2010 in Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor. People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). Biography Born into a family of People's Artist of the USSR Aleksandr Ivanovich Serdyuk. In 1961 he graduated from Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts. In 1961–1964 years - an actor of the Taras Shevchenko Kharkiv Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre. In 1964–1966 years - an actor of the Riga Youth Theatre. In 1966-1970 - an actor Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. Since 1970, he starred in the Dovzhenko Film Studios. In 2008, after a 37 year break, he returned to the stage as part of the troupe Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater. Death He died in 2010. Selected filmography *1954: ''Marina's Destiny'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Zaychenko
Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko (russian: Пётр Петрович Зайченко; 1 April 1943 – 21 March 2019) was a Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor.Пётр Зайченко: «Волгоград – трудно-театральный город» Career Fame in cinema brought Zaychenko the role of Sgt. Ivan Pukhov in 's '''' (1984). Later, the actor starred in two more films by this director: ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liubomiras Laucevičius
Liubomiras Laucevičius (born 15 June 1950) is a Lithuanian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1979. Selected filmography References External links * 1950 births Living people Lithuanian male film actors {{Lithuania-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
