Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk (Ukrainian: Іван Васильович Миколайчук; 15 June 1941 – 3 August 1987) was a Ukrainian actor, producer, and screen writer.
Ivan Mykolaichuk | |
|---|---|
Іван Миколайчук | |
 Mykolaichuk as Cossack Vasyl in The Lost Deed | |
| Born | 15 June 1941 Chortoryia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 3 August 1987 (aged 46) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Alma mater | Karpenko-Karyi Memorial National University of Theatrical Arts |
| Occupation | Film industry |
| Years active | 1964-1987 |
| Known for | Acting, filmmaking |
| Title | Distinguished Artist of Ukrainian SSR |
| Spouse | Maria Karpiuk |
| Awards | Lenin's Komsomol Prize of Ukrainian SSR (1967) Shevchenko State Prize of Ukrainian SSR (1988) |
He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964), based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's book of the same name. He received the Komsomol prize of Ukraine in 1967, and the title of Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1968. He posthumously received the Shevchenko National Prize.[1]
Biography
Ivan Vasylovych Mykolaichuk was born in a village of Chortoryia (Kitsman Raion) in Western Ukraine during World War II in a family of peasants. Mykolaichuk graduated from a high school of the neighboring village of Brusnytsia (Kitsman Raion). In 1957, he finished the Chernivtsi Music College and in 1961 he graduated from the theater-studio of the Chernivtsi Music-Drama Theater of Kobylyanska. On 29 August 1962, Mykolaichuk married an actress of the theater (later the People's Artist of Ukraine) Maria Karpiuk.[2]
In 1963-65, he studied in the Karpenko-Karyi Memorial Kyiv Institute of Theatrical Arts (instructor - Viktor Ivchenko). During those years, Ivan debuted in the Leonid Osyka's movie Dvoye (The two).
His films were often controversial and suppressed by the Soviet authorities; sometimes his films were banned from being screened by the KGB. Due to incidents with the Parajanov's film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Mykolaichuk was banned from film industry for some five years by the party authorities being recognized as too nationalistic and a person of hostile ideology. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, which received the Gold Prize of the 7th Moscow International Film Festival in 1971, was perceived almost as a hostile attack by nationalistic forces.[3]
In 1979 with the help of Vladimir Ivashko, who worked as the secretary of ideological work in the Kharkiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Mykolaichuk was given permission to direct the film Babylon XX, his directorial debut.
Mykolaichuk died in August 1987 at the age of 46. His house in Chortoryia has since been turned into a museum. He left a lasting legacy on Ukrainian film. Many consider him to be the greatest actor in the history of Ukrainian film. He also inspired other Ukrainian artists, actors, singers and writers who were searching for their Ukrainian identity in the Soviet era.
Filmography
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| Year | Title | Medium | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Film | Hutsul Ivan | Lenin Komsomol Prize of Ukraine (1967) |
| 1964 | The Dream | Film | Taras Shevchenko | |
| 1965 | The Viper | Film | White Guardian Brykin | |
| 1966 | Wild Grass | Film | Davyd Motuzka | |
| 1967 | Two deaths | Short | ||
| 1967 | Kyiv Melodies | Documentary | composer | |
| 1968 | Scouts | Film | Viktor Kurhanov | |
| 1968 | The Stone Cross | Film | Mykola | |
| 1968 | Mistake of Honoré de Balzac | Film | Levko (jockey-serf) | |
| 1968 | Annychka | Film | Hutsul Roman | |
| 1971 | Zakhar Berkut | Film | Liubomyr | |
| 1971 | Commisars | Film | Hryhoriy Hromov | |
| 1971 | White Bird with Black Mark | Film | Petro Dzvonar | |
| 1971 | Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow | Film | Sergeant Savchuk | |
| 1971 | Lady from Berendei Land | Film | Rei | |
| 1971 | I Go To You | Film | Painter | |
| 1972 | Treta sled slantzeto | Film | Bayan | |
| 1972 | The Lost Deed | Film | Cossack Vasyl | |
| 1973 | Contrary to Everything | Film | Ioko | |
| 1973 | When person smiled | Film | Oleksiy | |
| 1974 | About Vitya, Masha, and marines | Film | Vakula | |
| 1974 | Maryna | Film | conductor | |
| 1975 | Novella About a Woman | Film | writer | |
| 1975 | Waves of the Black Sea | Film | Terentiy | |
| 1975 | The Channel | Film | Zaychenko | |
| 1977 | The troubled month of Veresen | Film | Gnat | |
| 1978 | The Sea | Film | Simokhyn | |
| 1978 | The redemption of sins of others | Film | Rusyn | |
| 1978 | Under the Constellation Gemini | Film | Aircraft crew member | |
| 1979 | Babylon XX | Film | Fabian | |
| 1979 | More | Film | ||
| 1981 | Such Late, Such Warm Autumn | Film | Hryhor Korchak | |
| 1981 | The Forest Song. Nymph | Film | Spirit of Forest / Uncle Leo | |
| 1982 | The Return of Batterfly | Film | Anton Krushelnytsky | |
| 1983 | On the edge of the sword | Film | General Turchyn | |
| 1983 | Myrhorod and its Inhabitants | TV movie | Kurochka | |
| 1984 | The Legend of Princess Olga | Film | Great Prince Vladimir the Great | |
| 1986 | Na ostriye mecha | Film | ||
| 1986 | Zhmenyaks | Film | Pavlo Zhmenyak | |
| 2018 | Kaminnyy khrest | Film | Mikola | (final film role) |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Babylon XX | All-Union Film Festival in Dushanbe (1980) - Best Director |
| 1981 | Such Late, Such Warm Autumn |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | White Bird with Black Mark | |
| 1974 | To Dream and to Live | |
| 1977 | The Unsociable Man | |
| 1978 | Under the Constellation Gemini | |
| 1979 | Babylon XX | |
| 1981 | So Late and Warm Autumn | |
| 1986 | And Memory Will Recall in the Sounds | |
| 1989 | Fables About Ivan |
Accolades
- Lenin Komsomol Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1967)
- Distinguished Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1968)
- Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1988 posthumously) for performance of roles of Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Paliychuk, Davyd Motuzka, Hryhoriy Hromov, Petro Dzvonar, Fabian, and Hryhoriy Korchak in films "Dream", "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", "Weed", "Commissars", "White Bird with Black Mark", "Babylon-XX", and "Such late, such warm Autumn"