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Ivan the Powerful

6.4 80 mins 2013
Director(s): Viktor Andriienko

"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.

Casts of Ivan the Powerful

Dmytro Khaladgi

as Ivan Syla

Ivanna Sakhno

as Milka

Vasyl Virastiuk

as Velet

Igor Pismennyi

as Pandorsky

Bohdan Beniuk

as Kovalskiy

Olha Sumska

as Adeliya

Oleh Prymohenov

as Loader

Borys Barskyi

as Red Clown

Serhii Romaniuk

as Ivan in his old age

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