Mykola Vinhranovskyi
Biography
Writer, actor, film director, and translator. He graduated from the All-Union Institute of Cinematography (1960) in Moscow and has worked at the Kyiv Artistic Film Studio, where he played the lead role in Yuliia Solntseva's film The Tale of Flaming Years (1961). He wrote film scripts and directed the feature films The Squadron Turns Westward (1967), The Shore of Hope (1967), Duma about Brytanka (1969), and Klymko (1984) and several documentaries. Vinhranovsky gained prominence in the early 1960s as a leading poet of the shistdesiatnyky. He published the poetry collections Atomic Preludes (1962), A Hundred Poems (1967), Poems (1971), On the Silver Shore (1978), Kyiv (1982), With Warm Lips and a Golden Heart (1984), I Love This Woman (1990), From the Days Embraced by You (1993), and Love, Do Not Say Farewell (1997); several books of stories, including In the Depth of the Rains (1980; about the making of a film) and The Horse on the Evening Star (1986); the novel Nalyvaiko (1991); and, from 1970, several poetry books for children, for which he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize in 1984.
Known For & Full Filmography12 Titles
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The film tells about the brutal class struggle during the civil war in the villages of southern Ukraine.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The film is set on an island in the Pacific where a hydrogen bomb is being tested. A group of local fishermen die from radiation sickness. The inventor of the bomb, American scientist Thomas Sherwood, also receives a large dose of radiation and is now terminally ill. Once he professed the theory of "redemption through his own suffering," but now, in the face of death, he realized that such atonement does not benefit anyone.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as sergeant - plays the piano
World War II separates lovers Oksana and Anton. The young man is taken prisoner by the Germans, while his beloved abandons her studies at the conservatory to become a frontline nurse. Despite all the hardships, their paths cross again.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Two lovers cannot be together—the girl’s authoritarian father refuses to approve the marriage. When the young man kills him, a third figure—the couple’s childhood best friend—rushes to take revenge. He is faced with a difficult choice.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as (voice)
The film is dedicated to the historical period of the XI-XIII centuries, the times of Kyivan Rus and the Galician principality.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Himself
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as (voice)
An outstanding poet, student of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Vinhranovsky reads excerpts from his teacher's diary, comments on it - thereby emphasizing the tragic fate of the great artist. The film uses a chronicle of the war and post-war years.
Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as (voice)
Ukrainian Night of the 33rd is series of documentaries about the Holodomor, which includes the “Fear”, “Horror”, “Guillotine”, “Case of Hrushevsky.” Each part is full of horror, and the viewer is constantly in tension.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as (voice)
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as (voice)
The film is dedicated to the events of the early eighteenth century, the time of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Once again, director Yulia Solnsteva directs a movie that her late husband Alexandre Dovchenko scripted but did not live long enough to shoot. In this wartime drama, the emphasis is on the heroics of both the civilians and the soldiers during times of severe stress in World War II. At the core of the action is one man in particular, whose sacrifices and heroics speak for a much larger group.
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as (voice)
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.