Vasyl Virastyuk

Vasyl Virastyuk

Birth : 1974-04-22, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

History

Vasyl Virastyuk (Ukrainian: Василь Вірастюк; born 22 April 1974), is a Ukrainian politician and former strongman competitor. He is a brother of Roman Virastyuk. Virastyuk was the winner of World's Strongest Man 2004. In a 28 March 2021 parliamentary by-election, Virastyuk was a candidate for Servant of the People. On 15 June 2021, he was sworn in as a member of the Ukrainian parliament.

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Vasyl Virastyuk

Movies

Ukrainian Cinema. The Rise
Self (the expert)
A documentary film about the rise of Ukrainian cinema both at the national level and on the international stage.
Million Dollar Kiss
Edelweiss Hotel
Alex is a millionaire who wants to be a billionaire. To achieve this goal he embarks on a risky adventure. Once he learns about a hotel in the mountains, which allegedly is a huge amount of gold. The businessman comes up with a simple plan to arrive at the scene, to make friends with the owner of the hotel, enchant his daughter, to marry her and become those who will eventually get all the gold. This flawless plan turned out to be several weaknesses. About gold know other adventurers, and the daughter of the hotel owner’s engaged.
Polina i tayemnyzia kinostudiyi
Viking
11-year-old Polina, who knows nothing about her past and parents, lives with her spiteful aunt and wicked cousin. They secretly plan to get rid of the girl at the day of her birthday, all to get their hands on her mysterious inheritance. Chased by the villains, Polina manages to escape on a magical quest to discover the secret about her family. But she only has until midnight to achieve this goal.
December Tale
Kaban
Little boy Artem with his parents recently moved from a big city to a small Carpathian village. Holidays are coming and, like all children, Artem is waiting for St. Nicholas. And one day Nicholas appears in front of him by his own person. But in fact he's not Saint at all, under his guise an ordinary thief hides himself. Artem and his friends will show all their courage, ingenuity and agility to expose the villain.
The Stolen Princess
Zuban
This wonderful story happened in the age of valiant knights, beautiful princesses, and battling sorcerers. Ruslan, a wandering artist dreaming to become a knight, met beautiful Mila and fell in love with her; he didn’t even suspect that she is the King’s daughter. However, the lovers’ happiness wasn’t meant to last too long. Chernomor, the evil sorcerer, appeared in a magic vortex and stole Mila right before Ruslan’s eyes to transform her power of love into his own magic power. Without further ado, Ruslan sets out on a chase after the stolen princess to overcome all obstacles and to prove that real love is stronger than magic.
The Dragon Spell
Cyril
Little Nicky, the son of the Tanner, a famous strongman, has made up his mind, that he can conquer the dragon as his father did long ago. Against prohibition of his father, Nicky has managed to get into trouble and now it depends only on his courage, whether he defeats the resurgent dragon and returns home from the magic world.
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Ivan the Powerful
Velet
"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.