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Ivan the Powerful

Ivan the Powerful

IMDB:

6.4
Ivan the Powerful

Released

10/2/2013

Duration

1h 20m

Genre

Adventure, Drama

Country

Ukraine

Cast

Dmytro Khaladgi, Ivanna Sakhno, Vasyl Virastiuk

Overview

"Strong Ivan" is a film telling an outstanding life story of Ivan Firtsak who was born in June, 1899 in a Ukrainian village Bilky, Irshava district in Zakarpattia Oblast. At the age of 18 he became a performer with a Czechoslovak circus and travelled to 64 countries of the world, astonishing everybody with his victories. He was a weightlifting champion of Czechoslovakia, a bodybuilding champion of Europe. He earned the nickname Strong Ivan Croton for his incredible strength. Ivan Firtsak won a great number of single combats with famous wrestlers of the world. From hands of the Queen of England he received a helmet and a belt decorated with cold and diamonds. American press called him the strongest man of the XX century. In 1937 in the prime of his fame he came back to the homeland.

Cast

Dmytro Khaladgi

Ivan Syla

Dmytro Khaladgi

Ivanna Sakhno

Milka

Ivanna Sakhno

Vasyl Virastiuk

Velet

Vasyl Virastiuk

Viktor Andriienko

Fiksa

Viktor Andriienko

Igor Pismennyi

Pandorsky

Igor Pismennyi

Bohdan Beniuk

Kovalskiy

Bohdan Beniuk

Olha Sumska

Adeliya

Olha Sumska

Oleh Prymohenov

Loader

Oleh Prymohenov

Borys Barskyi

Red Clown

Borys Barskyi

Igor Kistol

Unknown Role

Igor Kistol

Serhii Romaniuk

Ivan in his old age

Serhii Romaniuk