Amvrosy Maksymiliyanovych Buchma[a] (14 March 1891 – 6 January 1957)[1] was a Ukrainian and Soviet stage and film actor, director and pedagogue.

After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I,[3] he returned to the stage and appeared in leading roles in Kharkiv and, since 1936, at the Ivan Franko Theater in Kyiv where he also worked as a director.

In 1929, Buchma had one of his most acclaimed roles as the German soldier going insane during a World War I gas attack in Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s Arsenal.

The actor played the title role of Gordei Iaroshchuk in The Night Coachman (1928) directed by Georgi Tasin, which tells the story of an ordinary man who awakens politically and sacrifices his life to avenge for the murder of his daughter.

Another performance by Buchma is the role of Taras, a man who refuses to give in to the Nazi occupants, in Mark Donskoy’s holocaust tragedy The Undefeated (1945).