Acting
Tatyana’s husband left for the business trip. And right away the local ladies’ men begin to put the moves towards a young woman. At first she fights back, but under the pressure of good words and love-making she is ready to put up hands. But the husband’s returning makes allowances in the plans of all characters. Based on Ivan Kotliarevsky` vaudeville The Muscovite-Sorcerer, that, together with operetta Natalka Poltavka (Natalka from Poltava), was landmarks in the development of Ukrainian theater.
The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.
The young and enterprising Muscovite Claudia, having accumulated decent capital, leaves the capital forever and goes to the Russian outback in order to establish civilization there. She starts by opening a casino in a small urban village. Provincial residents greet the Moscow guest coldly, with distrust and apprehension. And those who have been deprived of income by the opening of the gambling house enter into an open struggle with Claudia. But the woman finds the strength to withstand, despite the machinations of enemies and failures in her personal life.
An average soldier is caught up in the cogs of an inhuman war machine during the First World War.
Tonya Korovyak sleeps and sees itself a superstar. Dreams about glory, admirers, ovations and white limousine became her fixed idea. If at one time an ambitious girl mastered the elements of noble manners in boarding-school, now for the achievement of the put aim Tonya gathers to go to study on "Factory of Stars".
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A miniseries about the terrible years of repression in Ukraine in the 1930s. Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Bahrianyi.
Long time ago Ukrainian hetman sent his treasures to the British bank, hoping that later Ukraine will get rid of the Moscow yoke and then gold will help Ukrainian people. In modern times KGB agents and foreign spies hunt for hetman's descendant - Ivan Polubotko, guy phlegmatic and narrow-minded, to use him to get the treasure.
Gypsy Basil has fallen in love with beautiful Galya. He has forgotten his nomadic life, his own mother and gypsy girl Aza; he decides to stay in village with Galya. She has left a blacksmith Philip. She doesn't listen to her father, and gets married with Basil. But it will take time for Basil to miss the camp. And he apologizes to Aza and his mother.
A wealthy businessman tries to change his not so good sounding last name by marrying the heir of aristocratic family.
Based on the famous novel by Ilya Il'f and Yevgeniy Petrov this two-part-TV-movie tells the story of the of Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov who are searching for hidden jewelry, hidden in one of twelve chairs by Vorobyaninov's aristocratic mother-in-law, to hide it during the revolution. But their priest, Father Fyodor found out about it and starts searching for the same chairs. During the movie the story is commented by the authors themselves who are writing it during the process.
Yuras, a young man who has served eight years for a minor crime, is released from prison. He finds himself in his village, already in independent Ukraine. On the radio is heard a voice of the first president, who promises Ukrainians the right to a dignified life, and young people in clubs "dance non-Moscow, independent rock 'n' roll". The young man is trying to fit into a new picture of the world, even starting a relationship with a Latvian girl. The smell of freedom and international friendship wafts through the air. Dreamy and full of hope for a new life, Yuras is returned to earth by the executive service of the police, which acts as a long-standing and well-established repressive mechanism.
Gleb Ryazanov, a successful businessman, suddenly realizes that he has spent his best years on becoming a "right shot". Even his family life is nothing but a bargain. In a desperate attempt to start life with a clean slate Gleb leaves home, falling into a dizzying world of mysticism and crime, friendship and love. But to get out of the vicious circle is very difficult...
The shooting of a prosperous and influential businessman leaves the residents of a small provincial town in a state of shock. While the initial investigation indicates that a woman may have been involved in the murder, the crime scene has been left clean, and detectives have very little evidence to go on. However, with the culprits still at large and the crime unsolved, the sudden death of this local celebrity is frightening the entire town. Fortunately, the investigator from the central prosecutor's office happens to be in town on vacation and steps in to head the murder investigation.
