“I didn’t play, I lived”: Stepan Shkurat

Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company. Issue of the cycle program “Countrymen” for September 1, 2001 about the life and creative path of theater and film actor Stepan Shkurat.

On the video: black and white photos with the actor, excerpts from films; chronicle: monument to Taras Shevchenko in the city of Romny, excerpt from an interview with sculptor and film director Ivan Kavaleridze, tells about Stepan Shkurat and his contribution to the construction of the monument; daughter-in-law's story about family customs; fragment of musical works performed by Stepan Shkurat.

Contains fragments of the films "Chapaev", "Earth", Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube", "Horsemen".

Comments: sculptor, film director Ivan Kavaleridze; artistic director of the Romensky City Center for Culture and Leisure (MCKD) Mykola Dyadechko; daughter-in-law of the actor Nina Shkurat.

Worked on the release: Alla Fedorina, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, Natalia Narodnytska, Olga Sheptunova, Vitaliy Bukin.

Reference: Stepan Shkurat is a Ukrainian actor, known for his roles in classic Soviet films. He gained popularity thanks to the role of the policeman Potapov in the film "Chapaev" (1934) and Afanas Trubenko in "Earth" (1930) by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Also important stages of his career are the role of Mykola in the opera "Natalka-Poltavka" (1936) and Yavtukha in the film "Viy" (1967).