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Shkurnyk

  • 19291929
  • 1h 15m
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Shkurnyk (1929)
Comedy
An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of ... Read allAn opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he... Read allAn opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he goes on a journey with a camel, which somehow had strayed to his house. In the midway he ... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
38
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POPULARITY
319,024
123,271
  • Director
    • Mykola Shpykovskyi
  • Writers
    • Vadim Okhrimenko(story "Tsybala")
    • Boris Rozenzvejg
    • Mykola Shpykovskyi
  • Stars
    • Dora Feller-Spikovskaya
    • Dimitry Kaka
    • Luka Lyashenko
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  • Director
    • Mykola Shpykovskyi
  • Writers
    • Vadim Okhrimenko(story "Tsybala")
    • Boris Rozenzvejg
    • Mykola Shpykovskyi
  • Stars
    • Dora Feller-Spikovskaya
    • Dimitry Kaka
    • Luka Lyashenko
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    Dora Feller-Spikovskaya
    • Commissar
    Dimitry Kaka
    • Colonel
    Luka Lyashenko
    • Head of Partisans
    Ivan Sadovskiy
    Ivan Sadovskiy
    • Apollon Z. Shmyguev 'Shkurnik'
    • (as Ivan Sadovski)
    S. Vlasenko
    • Chief of bootlegging check-point
    • Director
      • Mykola Shpykovskyi
    • Writers
      • Vadim Okhrimenko(story "Tsybala")
      • Boris Rozenzvejg
      • Mykola Shpykovskyi
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    • Trivia
      The film depicts the revolutionary agitation of the Red Army in an openly sarcastic way; when the Soviet government saw itself caricatured, the film was banned in a week after its 1929 release in Ukraine, and then was never released in other republics of Soviet Union. Featuring a camel as one of the main characters and mocking Bolshevik bureaucracy and fanaticism, as well as the White Army's kleptocratic pomposity in the Civil War, this adroit farce is one of the best examples of early Ukrainian comedy.
    • Alternate versions
      In 2011, the film was digitally restored by the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Centre (Kyiv, Ukraine), with support of the State Film Agency of Ukraine, and released in June 2012 with music score composed by Vyacheslav Nazarov.

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    • Release date
      • May 2, 1929 (Soviet Union)
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      • VUFKU
      • VUFKU
    • Languages
      • None
      • Russian
    • Also known as
      • The Self-Seeker
    • Production companies
      • Kyivska Kinofabryka
      • Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 15 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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