The Uprising
2026 · History · Drama
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Film / 2019
Censored
Directed by
Roman Brovko
This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960s, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".
The story
This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960s, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".
Cast
Dmytro YaroshenkoVasyl Stus
Diana RozovlianValentyna Popeliukh
Evgeniya GladiyVira
Vitalii SaliiKuznietsov
Oleg MaslennikovZhuravlov
Karyna ShereverovaAlla Horska
Vladyslav MamchurLeonid Borodin
Akhmed EsmurzievArmen
Oleksandr ValiukWarden 1
Volodymyr HladkyiWarden 2
Igor TikhomirovWarden 3
Петро СоваIvan Dziuba
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Mikhail KondratskiyLevko Lukianenko
Myroslava PhilipovychMykhailyna Kotsiubynska
Slava KrasovskaSvitlana Kyrychenko
Yuriy VutyanovSerhii Paradzhanov
Roman YasinovskiyViacheslav Chornovil
Dmytro BazaiMykola Shamota
Roman KhalaimovStus's Lawyer
Vsevolod ShekitaZubkov
Yevhen SinchukovJudge
Mikhail KrishtalProsecutor
Yaroslav BezkorovainyiSharykov
Vladimir OsadchiyCaptain
Maksim NikitinPoliceman in the Park
Volodymyr ZozulyaLieutenant at the Dance
Kyrylo MyshkіnPolice Volunteer in the Park
Yurii VysotskyiOleksandr Horskyi
Vyacheslav NikolenkoYurii Badzo
Ruslan HryshkoLes Taniuk
Igor PetrusenkoShymanskyi
Denys RodnianskyiBorodin's Lawyer
Artem DenysovCamp Doctor
Serhii SolopaiEngineer
Valentyn TomusiakGuy 2
Oleksandr NevzorovGuy 4
Ekaterina Bashkina-ZlenkoSchoolgirl's Mother
Valeriy SkrypkaPoliceman on Khreshchatyk 2
Liliia YatsenkoLarysa Kadochnykova
Николай ТаранHarmonica Player
Sergey UlashevDrunkard
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