Ivan Mykolaichuk

Biography

Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk (Ukrainian: Іван Васильович Миколайчук) was a Ukrainian soviet actor, producer, and screen writer from Ukraine. He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (Тіні забутих предків) (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 Taras Shevchenko prize.

Known For

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

as Ivan Paliychuk

The Lost Letter

as Vasyl, the cossack

Liberation: The Fire Bulge

as Savchuk

Liberation: The Break Through

as Sergeant Savchuk

The White Bird Marked with Black

as Petro Dzvonar

A Story of the Forest: Mavka

as Uncle Leo / Wood Goblin

Zakhar Berkut

as Lyubomir

The Stone Cross

as Mykola

The Scouts

as Kurganov

The Legend of Princess Olga

as Volodymyr I Svyatoslavych