Ivan Mykolaichuk

Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk Ukrainian Іван Васильович Миколайчук was a Ukrainian soviet actor producer and screen writer from Ukraine He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Тіні забутих предків 1964 based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynskys book of the same name He received the Komsomol prize of Ukraine in 1967 and the title of Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1968 He posthumously received the Taras Shevchenko prize