Vadym Illienko

Vadym Illienko

1932-07-03
82 (2015-05-08)
Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]

Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]

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Chasing Two Hares 1961 (7.726)

Based on the Ukrainian vaudeville by Mykhailo Starytskyi, the famous Ukrainian writer. The leading character, Svyryd Petrovych Holokhvosty has his own barbershop in town and a reputation of a dandy. Once, after losing everything he had at cards, he decides to remedy his financial situation by a profitable marriage. A rich but ugly girl named Pronia Sirko falls for the illustrious suitor’s courtship...
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The Eve of Ivan Kupalo 1968 (6.9)

Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales.
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Oleksa Dovbush 1960 (4.542)

The story of the "Hutsul Robin Hood" Oleksa Dovbush, an 18th century Carpathian Mountains outlaw who's a popular figure of Ukrainian legend.