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Ivan Drach

Ivan Drach

Writing

Known For

The Lost Letter
7.6

Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg.

The Lost Letter

1972
The Grandfather of the Left Winger
N/A

Trofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.

The Grandfather of the Left Winger

1973
Evenings on a farm near Dikanka
7.3

A fantasy film on the theme of the early works of Nikolai Gogol, tightly interwoven with his personality and biography.

Evenings on a farm near Dikanka

1983
A Spring for the Thirsty
7.0

A parable centering on an old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs. His wellspring, once a source of joy and hope for thirsty passersby, is now rarely used. No longer able to find comfort in his memories, he turns all his photographs to face the walls.

A Spring for the Thirsty

1965
Marrying Death
7.9

End of the 1930s. The times of Stalin's terror. Lieutenant Scherbakov got the order to shoot several "enemies of the people". Unexpectedly, a rural wedding found itself at the crime scene. Pursuant to the instruction, witnesses were also eliminated...

Marrying Death

1992
The Zone
N/A

Based on the play by Mykola Kulish. The film takes place at a time when Soviet power was established, and due to collectivization and excessive withdrawal of funds from grain sales abroad, famine began. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of three comrades who initially supported the revolution and the new system, but now have changed their views.

The Zone

1988
No image
N/A

1227, the last night of dying Genghis Khan. With promises and threats tyrant tries to persuade captive Otrar physician Akerke, the widow of the scientist, who was killed by Mongol soldiers, to save his life. But patriotic woman does not want to deliver the oppressor of his people and severely exposes his bloody tyranny of power.

The Secret of Genghis Khan

2002
I'm Coming to You...
6.5

The main motive of the film - a tragic love of Lesya Ukrainka to Marxist revolutionary Sergei Merzhinskiy. The film is about the poetess' trip to her beloved, in the literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

I'm Coming to You...

1970
The Wings
N/A

Uncle Kyrylo receives wings as a New Year's gift and becomes so proud of them, that he starts to teach birds how to fly, but then realizes that he knows very little about it himself.

The Wings

1983
Memories Echoing in Sounds...
9.0

Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko goes for a walk in Kyiv. Along the way, his memory takes him back in time: first to his childhood in the village of Hrynky; to May 1861, when he attended Taras Shevchenko's funeral; to a trip to Leipzig; to the time when he was working on the opera "Taras Bulba"; to the images of Olha O'Connor and Olha Lypska, who gave him love, happiness, and inspiration.

Memories Echoing in Sounds...

1987
The Stone Cross
6.5

In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.

The Stone Cross

1968
The Secret of the Love Potion
8.0

Once upon a time, there was an old man who knew a lot about herbs and magic spells. Many people came to him at night for their happiness, and he helped them all (well, almost all) to find love. What was the secret of his magic potion and why did the old man still remain lonely?

The Secret of the Love Potion

1980
Dear, Beloved Mother...
N/A

At the age of 18, Tatiana married Maxim, a widower, and became the mother of his three children. But soon her husband dies at the hands of bandits, and her relatives, seeking to take over the household, throw her out of the house. Some time later Tatiana marries Pavel, the father of four children, and by the age of 26 gives birth to three sons. But the war begins and with it come more severe trials....

Dear, Beloved Mother...

1986
Ivan Mykolaichuk. Trizna
N/A

The first movie about the actor who became the creator and symbol of Ukrainian poetic cinema Ivan Mykolaichuk, released 2 years after his death.

Ivan Mykolaichuk. Trizna

1989
Ukrainian Night of the 33rd
N/A

Ukrainian Night of the 33rd is series of documentaries about the Holodomor, which includes the “Fear”, “Horror”, “Guillotine”, “Case of Hrushevsky.” Each part is full of horror, and the viewer is constantly in tension.

Ukrainian Night of the 33rd

1994
Babyn Yar
N/A

The film is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar. A memorial service and a requiem rally are shown. The writer I. F. Drach makes a speech. Photo and film documents from the Second World War are used.

Babyn Yar

1989
Yours Vasyl
6.0

Vasyl Stus dreamed of engaging in literature, not politics; to be a famous poet, not a dissident. But the Soviet special services and the CPSU pushed him to a point of no return. How did such a transformation take place? What was "Yours Vasyl" really like?

Yours Vasyl

2020