Personal Info
Birth date
1929-07-25 (95 Years)
Day of death
1974-10-02
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Srostki, Srostinskiy rayon, Sibirskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR
Also known as
Vasili Shukshin
Василий Шукшин
Vasiliy Shukshin
Vasily Shukshin
Василий Макарович Шукшин
Vasiliy Shukshin
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.
Filmography
They Fought for Their Motherland
6.886
Overview:
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.The Red Snowball Tree
7.059
Overview:
A thief named Egor, having served a term in prison, goes to the country to meet his pen-friend Lyuba, a kind genial village woman. Egor comes to love Lyuba sincerely. Now he has friends, work and a beloved woman, he decides to break with his criminal past and start a new life. However, his former criminal associates interfere brutally.Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
6
Overview:
This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern front campaign.When the Trees Were Tall
6.625
Overview:
The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.The Commissar
6.5
Overview:
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.The Killers
5.979
Overview:
The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.Happy-Go-Lucky
4.947
Overview:
A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev, traveling with his wife to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow.And in the Morning They Woke Up
5.7
Overview:
Eight men, eight stories about the morning after party...Dauria
6.2
Overview:
A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to defend the revolution, and others - to fight against it. The main hero is the young Cossack Roman Ulybin. At first, this carefree daredevil is preoccupied only with one problem: whether his sweetheart, Dashutka, is to marry him or a merchant’s son, Alyoshka. Roman is killing time fist-fighting with his rival. But little by little, the young man realizes that the world around him has changed, that people are fighting for equality and social justice, and, being a real Cossack, he can’t remain on the sidelines…Shukshin's Stories
7
Overview:
Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story in the center of which is invariably Man, with his love, quests, weaknesses and victories.Three Days of Viktor Chernyshyov
6.5
Overview:
Mid 20th century. Industry is developing rapidly and the need for workers in factories is growing. After graduating from the tenth year, Viktor Chernyshyov, now a city dweller, did not bother to continue his education and went to the plant as a turner. He considered it quite normal that the guys enthusiastically listened to the stories of his peer Kolya, a lounger who boasted of victories over women, and participated in his dubious amusements. Only one of them, Pyotr — a real worker, a doctor, tried to reason with Kolya and the others.By the Lake
5.2
Overview:
The film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world around us, the problem of preserving Lake Baikal, on the banks of which a large construction project has unfolded. The first half of the 60s of the XX century, the story of the love of young Lena Barmina to an adult respectable person, bearing on his shoulders a heavy burden of responsibility for the activities of a huge enterprise. Construction engineer Chernykh and Lena, the daughter of a scientist, are doing everything to save the lake from harmful and unjustified plums. A difficult relationship develops between them and soon Lena realizes that she is in love. But after learning that Chernykh is married, the girl leaves...Holy Moly!
6.2
Overview:
Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey Nikonenko based on Vasily Shukshin’s short stories “Touches on the Portrait”, “The Stubborn One”, “The Strong Go Further”. Nikolai Knyazev works in a TV repair shop. God has blessed him with golden hands and heart, yet the majority of his fellow-town folk think he’s a bit nutty. And for a good reason: he’s constructing a perpetual motion machine, for years has been writing a philosophical treatise, dreaming of world fame and looking down on the other inhabitants of this sinful earth. But no matter how hard he is looking, he can’t see where his happiness (that is, post-office employee Lyuba) lies…Liberation: Battle for Berlin
7
Overview:
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin and Stalin negotiates with the other Allies.If You Want To Be Happy
6
Overview:
Andrei and Tanya love each other, which is why frequent partings are so difficult for them: Andrei is a test pilot, and Tanya works on television, and both are constantly on business trips. They have two sons — twins. For eight years of marriage, they cannot count a total of three when they were together. And yet they are happy...A Simple Story
4.818
Overview:
The war was over. Like many of her female friends, Sasha Potapova was left a widow. It was hard living without a man’s shoulder to lean on, without love and affection, yet no one had ever seen her crying or despairing. For her strong character, the fellow-villagers elected her a collective farm chairwoman. The work, with its cares and worries, helped all but forget about her personal misfortune and woman’s loneliness. And then she fell in love – a bittersweet, unshared love, but happy anyway…The Golden Echelon
8
Overview:
1919 year. There is a civil war in Siberia. Taking advantage of the complete confusion, Admiral Kolchak wants to export part of the country's gold reserves abroad. At the very last moment the Bolsheviks find out about it. They decide to intercept the train, but do not have time to properly prepare the operation... The girl Nadya, in whom the head of the train is passionately in love, can save the situation. Several kilometers of railway tracks to the border become a battlefield between white and red.Your Son and Brother
6.7
Overview:
Based on short stories by Vasiliy Shukshin. About the life and people of the modern Soviet village. Old Yermolai lived all his life in one village. He has four sons, each with their own problems. The youngest foolishly ended up in jail and, three months before his release, greatly missing his family, escaped.Call Me from Afar
5
Overview:
Grusha's (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya (Vladimir Naumenko). Her brother Nikolay (Mikhail Ulyanov) is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir (the film's co-director Stanislav Lyubshin). For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship, Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way, so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while. However, Grusha's not so sure about the arrangement. Based on a play by Vasiliy Shukshin.The End of the Lyubavines
NYR
Overview:
Based on the novel by Vasiliy Shukshin "The Lyubavines". In the winter of 1922, the Rodionovs, Vasiliy Platonovich and his nephew Kuzma, came to the remote Siberian village of Baklan, disguised as teachers sent from the district center to organize and build a school. In fact, this is an old Bolshevik and a young worker, authorized by the GPU, and their main task is to find out the whereabouts of a large and very dangerous gang, led by a former Kolchak officer, who instills fear in local residents.Alyonka
5.167
Overview:
Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alenka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.Mishka, Seryoga and I
6
Overview:
Three friends are bored in eighth grade but everything changes after a new teacher arrives to the class.Mission
7
Overview:
Agricultural machinery design engineer Mikhail Shcherbakov goes to the countryside instead of taking a vacation. The tractor designed by him does not work in one of the collective farms. Circumstances force him to stay much longer than he expected. Here he meets Klava, who works in the apiary. And far from being on official business, the engineer remains on the collective farm.Liberation: The Break Through
7.1
Overview:
A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - "Liberation".I Wish to Speak
6.1
Overview:
The mayor of a village sees her son killed in a gun accident. A successful, dedicated bureuacrat, she must reconcile her desire to build a bridge - and the new housing that will come with it - with the reality of resistance from the townspeople and her own grief.The Two Fedors
5.455
Overview:
At the end of the Second World War, Fedor is demobilized and returns home where he meets a homeless boy, small Fedor. They decide to live together. The adult works in the building trade and the boy goes to school and looks after the house. They get on very well until Natacha arrives in big Fedor's life. After marrying big Fedor, Natacha tries to win the child's love. But he remains hostile.Acting
2011The Silence of Pelešjan as Self (archive footage)
2003And in the Morning They Woke Up as Vasiliy Shukshin (archive footage)
1976I Wish to Speak as Фёдор, местный драматург
1975They Fought for Their Motherland as Piotr Lopakhin
1974If You Want To Be Happy as Fedotov
1974The Red Snowball Tree as Егор Прокудин
1972Dauria as Vasiliy Ulybin
1972Happy-Go-Lucky as Иван Сергеевич Расторгуев — алтайский хлебороб-тракторист
1971Liberation: Battle for Berlin as Unknown
1970Lyubov Yarovaya as Roman Koshkin
1970Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow as Gen. Konev
1970Эхо далёких снегов as Unknown
1969Liberation: The Break Through as Gen. Konev
1969By the Lake as Vasili Vasilievich Chernykh
1969Men's Talk as Nikolay Larionov
1968Three Days of Viktor Chernyshyov as Kravchenko
1967The Journalist as Yevgeni Sergeyevich
1967The Commissar as The Commandant
1964What Is It, the Sea? as Unknown
1962We, Two Men as Mykhailo Gorlov
1962Mission as Unknown
1962Alyonka as Unknown
1961When the Trees Were Tall as Chairman of the Kolkhoz
1961Mishka, Seryoga and I as Unknown
1961Yurka, the Pantsless Team as Михаил Горлов
1960A Simple Story as Unknown
1960Reports from Lebyazhye as Ивлев
1959The Golden Echelon as Andrei Nizovtsev
1958The Two Fedors as Great Fyodor
1956The Killers as Ole Andreson
Writing
2024Father and Son ... Story
2020The Boots ... Book
2015Рассказы Шукшына ... Writer
2014A Will to Live ... Novel
2012Vanka Teplyashin ... Original Story
2009I Believe! ... Novel
2003And in the Morning They Woke Up ... Story
2002Shukshin's Stories ... Author
1991A Tough Guy ... Author
1991Hunting to Live ... Author
1989Energetic People ... Author
1988Энергичные люди ... Writer
1988Holy Moly! ... Novel
1987The In-Laws ... Writer
1983Charaktery a lásky ... Short Story
1981Childhood Holidays ... Story
1981Friends of Games and Jokes ... Writer
1979The Zavyalov Weirdos ... Novel
1978Call Me from Afar ... Screenplay
1978A nem várt vendég ... Writer
1977In Profile and Full Face ... Novel
1975Wider Step Maestro! ... Story
1975Countrymen ... Writer
1974The Red Snowball Tree ... Novel, Screenplay
1972Happy-Go-Lucky ... Writer
1972The End of the Lyubavines ... Novel
1972A Soldier Came Back from the Front ... Screenplay
1969Strange People ... Short Story, Screenplay
1969Vanya, How are You Here? ... Original Story
1966Your Son and Brother ... Screenplay, Short Story
1966There Is Such a Lad ... Writer
Directing
1974The Red Snowball Tree ... Director
1972Happy-Go-Lucky ... Director
1969Strange People ... Director
1966Your Son and Brother ... Director
1966There Is Such a Lad ... Director
1960Reports from Lebyazhye ... Director