Director,
Writer,
Actor
Born 1929, USSR (Russia)
 
Died 1974
Vasili SHUKSHIN
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Василий Макарович ШУКШИН
Vassili CHOUKCHINE
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
1973 - The Red SnowBall Tree (Калина красная) [fiction, 108 mn]
1972 - Happy Go Lucky (Печки-лавочки) [fiction, 101 mn]
1969 - Strannyye Lyudi (Странные люди) [fiction, 105 mn]
1965 - Bash cyn i brat (Ваш сын и брат) [fiction, 92 mn]
1964 - There Was A Lad (Живет такой парень) [fiction, 101 mn]
1960 - Iz Lebyazhego soobshchayut (Из Лебяжьего сообщают) [fiction, 32 mn]
 
Writer
2024 - Father's son (Отца сын) from Ilya ZIMIN [fiction, 62 mn]
1977 - Call Me to the Shining Distance (Позови меня в даль светлую) from German LAVROV , Stanislav LIUBSHIN [fiction, 97 mn]
1974 - Fellow countrymen (Земляки) from Valentin VINOGRADOV [fiction, 87 mn]
1973 - The Red SnowBall Tree (Калина красная) from Vasili SHUKSHIN [fiction, 108 mn]
1972 - Happy Go Lucky (Печки-лавочки) from Vasili SHUKSHIN [fiction, 101 mn]
1971 - A Soldier Returns from the Front (Пришел солдат с фронта) from Nikolay GUBENKO [fiction, 86 mn]
1969 - Strannyye Lyudi (Странные люди) from Vasili SHUKSHIN [fiction, 105 mn]
1965 - Bash cyn i brat (Ваш сын и брат) from Vasili SHUKSHIN [fiction, 92 mn]
1964 - There Was A Lad (Живет такой парень) from Vasili SHUKSHIN [fiction, 101 mn]
1960 - Iz Lebyazhego soobshchayut (Из Лебяжьего сообщают) from Vasili SHUKSHIN [fiction, 32 mn]
 
Actor
1975 - They fought for their country (Они сражались за Родину) from Sergey BONDARCHUK [fiction, 160 mn]
1975 - I Want The Floor (Прошу слова) from Gleb PANFILOV [fiction, 145 mn]
1974 - If You Want to Be Happy (Если хочешь быть счастливым) from Nikolay GUBENKO [fiction, 69 mn]
1973 - The Red SnowBall Tree (Калина красная) from Vasili SHUKSHIN [fiction, 108 mn]
1972 - Happy Go Lucky (Печки-лавочки) from Vasili SHUKSHIN [fiction, 101 mn]
1971 - Daurya (Даурия) from Viktor TREGUBOVICH [fiction, 182 mn]
1971 - Bitva za Berlin (Битва за Берлин) from Yuri OZEROV [fiction, 70 mn]
1971 - Liberation: The Last Assault (Освобождение: Последний штурм) from Yuri OZEROV [fiction, 75 mn]
1970 - Liberation (Освобождение) from Yuri OZEROV [fiction, 477 mn]
1970 - Lyubov Yarovaya (Любовь Яровая)
1969 - By The Lake (У озера) from Sergey GERASIMOV [fiction, 184 mn]
1969 - Man's Talk (Мужской разговор) from Igor SHATROV [fiction, 93 mn]
1969 - Echo of Distant Snows (Эхо далеких снегов) from Leonid GOLOVNIA [fiction, 86 mn]
1967 - The Journalist (Журналист) from Sergey GERASIMOV [fiction, 226 mn]
1967 - The Commissar (Комиссар) from Aleksandr ASKOLDOV [fiction, 110 mn]
1967 - Three Days of Viktor Chernyshov (Три дня Виктора Чернышева) from Mark OSEPIAN [fiction, 103 mn]
1964 - Kakoe ono, more? (Какое оно, море?) from Eduard BOCHAROV [fiction, 81 mn]
1962 - Kogda derevya byli bolshimi (Когда деревья были большими) from Lev KULIDZHANOV [fiction, 95 mn]
1962 - My dvoe muzhchin (Мы двое мужчин) from Yuri LYSENKO [fiction, 84 mn]
1961 - Alenka (Аленка) from Boris BARNET [fiction, 89 mn]
1961 - Komandirovka (Командировка) from Yuri YEGOROV [fiction, 91 mn]
1961 - Mishka, Serega i ya (Мишка, Серега и я) from Yuri POBEDONOSTSEV [fiction, 97 mn]
1960 - Prostaya istoriya (Простая история) from Yuri YEGOROV [fiction]
1960 - Iz Lebyazhego soobshchayut (Из Лебяжьего сообщают) from Vasili SHUKSHIN [fiction, 32 mn]
1959 - Zolotoy eshelon (Золотой эшелон) from Ilya GURIN [fiction, 101 mn]
1958 - The Two Fedors (Два Федора) from Marlen KHUTSIEV [fiction, 89 mn]
1956 - The Killers (Убийцы) from Marika BEYKU , Aleksandr GORDON , Andrey TARKOVSKY [fiction, 20 mn]
 
Sites : www.shukshin.ru/, IMDb, Kino-teatr
Awards :
 Artiste émérite de la Russie,1969
Lauréat du prix national de l’Union Soviétique,1971
Prix Lénine à titre posthume, 1976
Bash cyn i brat :
Prix des Frères Vassiliev à Vassili Choukchine, 1967
There Was A Lad :
Premier prix au Festival national de l'Union Soviétique, 1964
The Red SnowBall Tree :
Premier prix au festival de l'Union Soviétique, 1974
Biography
Vassily Shukshin was born on July 25, 1929 in Strotsky, Siberia, into a peasant family. He was initially a worker. In 1954, he began studying cinema in Moscow at the VGIK (National Institute of Cinematography), under the direction of Mikhail Romm. In 1958, he began a career as an actor in The Two Fyodors (M. Khoutziev). He appeared in about twenty films, and became very popular thanks to his natural and open style. An internationally renowned writer, he became a director, and often an actor, in his own works. Thus, in 1972 he filmed A Batons Romps/De Fil En Aiguille, in which he played, with his wife Lydia Fedoseieva, the role of a kolkhoz farmer on vacation on the Black Sea coast. His most famous role is in The Red Guelder (1973), where he plays a delinquent who tries to rebuild his life as a tractor driver in a kolkhoz.
In all his works, literary and filmed, his love of nature and his respect for human beings are expressed. He died prematurely in 1974, in Klietskaya (Ukraine) during the filming of the film They Fought for the Fatherland. His literary work has inspired many filmmakers: for example in 1977 Call Me to the Far-Off Lights by G. Lavrov and S. Lioubchine.
 
Commentaries
- Beyond the canon: Soviet cinema 2024,
- RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq films nostalgiques soviétiques d’été Valeria PAÏKOVA, 2021, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Лента длиною в эпоху. Шедевры советского кино , Neya ZORKAYA, 2017, Bely Gorod
- Василий Шукшин : Жизнь в кино. Сборник документов Коротков И.А., Огнева Е.В., Фомин В.И, 2009, Барнаул: ГМИЛИКА, «Алтайский дом печати»
- Choukchine , Group of authors, 1981, in Association France-URSS, n°2
 
 
Photos and videos

1975 - Ils ont combattu pour la patrie (Они сражались за Родину) de Sergueï BONDARTCHOUK


1967 - La Commissaire (Комиссар) de Aleksandr ASKOLDOV


1962 - Quand les arbres étaient grands (Когда деревья были большими) de Lev KOULIDJANOV


Vassili Choukchine en 1958, étudiant au VGIK