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Vasiliy Shukshin
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Life & Death

Died aged 45
Also known asVasili Shukshin, Василий Макарович Шукшин, V. Shukshin, В. ШукшинGenderMaleNationalitySoviet UnionBorn25/07/1929Born inSrostki, Srostinskiy rayon, Sibirskiy kray, RSFSR, USSRDied02/10/1974 (aged 45)Died inKletskayaCausemyocardial infarctionWikidataQ316086 ↗Buried atNovodevichy CemeteryTMDb#562603 ↗

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin was a Soviet and Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. A prominent member of the Village Prose movement, he began writing short stories in his early teenage years and later transitioned to acting by his late 20s.

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Filmography13 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2011The Silence of PelešjanMovieSelf (archive footage)82
2003And in the Morning They Woke UpMovieVasiliy Shukshin (archive footage)74
1975They Fought for Their MotherlandMoviePyotr Lopakhin46
1974The Red Snowball TreeMovieEgor Prokudin45
1972Happy-Go-LuckyMovieIvan Rastorguyev43
1972DauriaMovieVasily43
1971Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of BerlinMovieKonev42
1971Liberation - Part 5 : The Last AssaultMovieKonev42
1971Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main BlowMovieKonev42
1970Lyubov YarovayaMovieRoman Koshkin41
1970By the LakeMovieVasili Vasilievich Chernykh41
1961When the Trees Were TallMovieChairman of the Kolkhoz32
1961Mishka, Seryoga and IMovie—32