Rostyslav Synko
Directing
Biography
Rostyslav Oleksandrovych Synko (August 21, 1933, Stepano-Krynka, Donetsk Oblast — October 23, 2010, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, and sculptor. He was named an Honored Worker of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR in 1983. He was born in the village of Stepano-Krynka, Donetsk Oblast, into the family of an economist. He graduated from the acting department of the Kyiv Institute of Theater Arts named after I. Karpenko-Kary (1955). From 1955 to 1957, he served in the Belarusian Military District Ensemble, performed on stage at the Kyiv Theater for Young Audiences, and then worked at the Kyiv Television Studio (1957–1964). Since 1965, he has been a director at the Ukrteleviz studio. Co-organizer of the Ivan Kavaleridze Memorial Fund (1992) and the I. Kavaleridze Museum-Workshop in Kyiv on Andriivskyi Uzviz, director (1993–2010). He taught at the Kyiv State University of Theater, Music, and Television named after I. Karpenko-Kary. He was a member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. He died on October 23, 2010, in Kyiv.
Known For
A miniseries about the terrible years of repression in Ukraine in the 1930s. Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Bahrianyi.
Garden of Gethsemane
Based on the play of the same name by Mykola Kulish. The film is set in the 1920s and tells of a brief period of "introduction" of the Ukrainian language (Ukrainization). This is the story of one crazy person living in the same crazy world.
People's Malachi
The story about the fate of Andrii Chumak, who escapes from the train, which had to arrive him to Siberian concentration camps. He gets to the Ukrainian village where he is harboring. There he also meets his love.
Tiger Trappers
Adaptation of the play by Mykhailo Starytskyi. The beautiful widow's daughter Marusia is in love with perhaps the best Cossack in the village, Hrytsko Shandura, who reciprocates her feelings. However, this love is hindered by the young man Khoma, who is determined to separate the lovers so that he can marry the beautiful girl himself.
Gregory, Don't Go to the Village Dances
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Scary Beast
In the school forestry, they discover a lair where a she-wolf lives with three cubs. Sheep go missing on a collective farm and the wolf family is blamed for this. But the young foresters are sure that the "wolf" stealing sheep is one of the collective farmers.
Such Lovely Wolves
"The Nightingale from the Village of Marshyntsi was the second musical film on Ukrainian television to star Sofia Rotaru. Sophia Rotaru sang Ukrainian folk songs ("Cheremshyna") and Moldovan songs typical of this region of Ukraine. The film was shot in the Chernivtsi Philharmonic. The young singer appears in the film under the surname Rotar, a Ukrainianized version of the Moldovan surname Rotaru.
Nightingale from the Village of Marshintsy
The film is about a large family whose relationships are regulated by the father, a man who is honest but sometimes too direct.
Thy Father's House
The film tells the story of folk and pop songs from Bukovyna in the mid-1960s.
Songs of a Happy Land
A story about the dramatic double life of Kyiv's underclass. Based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky.
Kyiv Beggars
TV documentary for the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.