Amvrosy Maksymiliyanovych Buchma (14 March 18916 January 1957)Бучма Амвросій Максимиліанович

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was a Ukrainian and Soviet stage and film actor, director and pedagogue. He stepped onto the stage professionally for the first time in 1905 with the

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. He was awarded with the

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in 1944.

Life and career

Buchma was born into the family of a railway worker. He graduated from the Lysenko Institute in 1905, and worked as an extra in the Russkaia Beseda theater in Lvov until 1912. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in

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, he returned to the stage and appeared in leading roles in

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and, since 1936, at the Ivan Franko Theater in Kyiv where he also worked as a director. Buchma made his film debut in 1924 in two satirical comedies by

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: ''Vendetta'', critical of the Church, and ''Macdonald'', a about the

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and his anti-Soviet activities (Buchma played the title role). The actor gained exposure with two films by

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: the biopic ''Taras Shevchenko'' (1926) in which he portrayed the Ukrainian poet, and the historical drama ''Taras Triasilo'' (1927). In 1929, Buchma had one of his most acclaimed roles as the German soldier going insane during a World War I gas attack in

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’s ''

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''. The actor played the title role of Gordei Iaroshchuk in '' The Night Coachman'' (1928) directed by Georgi Tasin, which tells the story of an ordinary man who awakens politically and sacrifices his life to avenge for the murder of his daughter. Buchma, transitioned to sound film without great difficulty. Another performance by Buchma is the role of Taras, a man who refuses to give in to the Nazi occupants, in

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’s holocaust tragedy ''The Undefeated'' (1945). Buchma also starred in

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’s ''

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'' (1943–1945) in the role of Aleksei Basmanov. As director, Buchma helmed the silent ''Behind the Wall'' (1929), and a sound film in 1954, ''Earth'' (co-directed with A. Zhvachko). Buchma, a member of the Communist Party since 1942, was director of the

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from 1945 to 1948. Beginning in 1940, he taught at the Karpenko-Karii Theater Institute in Kyiv. Buchma received Stalin Prizes for his theater work in 1941 and 1949 and was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1944.

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