An image from Liberation: Breakthrough, one of the productions that also features Vasiliy Shukshin.

Vasiliy Shukshin

July 25, 1929 — Srostki, Srostinskiy rayon, Sibirskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes.

The Killers

1956

The Red Snowball Tree

1974

They Fought for Their Motherland

1975

The Commissar

1967

When the Trees Were Tall

1961

Liberation: The Battle of Berlin

1971

Liberation: Breakthrough

1969

Happy-Go-Lucky

1972