Serhiy Brzhestovsky
Art
Biography
Serhiy Brzhestovsky is an Ukraininan production designer and actor born on October 10, 1941 in Nalchik. He graduated from the Kyiv College of Applied Arts in 1964, and Faculty of Arts Institute of Cinematography 1973.
Known For
Liu is a young barrel maker and is recognized by the guild as a master, but no one truly believes in his qualities. After a long wait, he receives a commission from Karata to make him a barrel. Georgi Djulgerov's student film based on 'The Exam' by Nikolai Haitov.
Barrel maker

Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales.
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

Sea elements are fraught with many secrets. No crew is safe from emergencies that may occur at sea when they enter the open sea. The film tells a story that happened with the crew of an old tugboat "Dolphin". The ship fell into a terrible storm and, unable to overcome weather conditions, stood on stones. The crew led by the captain promptly leaves the ship, only the engineer Samokhin remains on the ship.
Chaotic Flight

The film is based on the stories Anton Chekhov. It is a tribute to the actor Boris Andreyev. He plays a major role that keeps up for the duration of the film. Lively and intelligent Valery Spout largely mitigates underline the drama of the protagonist, while Michael Sveta's role, though small, is bright and memorable.
Soft-Boiled Boots

An accident occurs on an orbital space station, as a result of which the ship's commander is seriously injured. He must be urgently delivered to Earth and testing must be continued. It can only be done by the crew of Kuznetsov-Mukhin.
Return from Orbit

A story of two delinquent boys at a boarding school, struggling to cope with fathers who abandoned them, and retreating into fantasy.
A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers

A television film based on the short stories by Anton Chekhov: “On the Road,” “In Autumn,” and “In Exile.” Part one of a two-part series; the second part is “A Love Story”
Stories About Love

This fairy tale tells about famous Ukrainian warriors Cossacks, about Paradise and hell, Christmas and evil forces. The Devil makes an agreement with St. Peter. If he can capture the best Cossack warrior and hold him until Christmas night, he will be able to wipe all the Cossacks off the map. The script for the movie is based on Sashko Lirnyk's story "About an old Cossack, a Christmas devil, four horns and a Cossacks".
Infernal Guidon, or Cossack Christmas

A fairytale based on the play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.
Spring Tale

Follows a young soldier and poet at the beginning of World War II in 1941. After being wounded while trying to save his commander, he finds himself behind enemy lines and goes through an arduous journey of survival and trials as he makes his way to a partisan detachment. Throughout his ordeal, the soldier reads poems by wartime poets.
Love Awaits Those Who Return

Kate is a charming but single woman. She had two serious relationships in the past, and both of them ended with a hard break up which left her heart-broken and disappointed. Kate's boyfriend added even more misery by cheating on her on the New Year's eve. She does not know yet that New Year's night will miraculously change her entire life...
Necklace for a Snow Woman

A story about a few days during the defense of Kiev at the beginning of WWII.
No Unknown Soldiers

Drama about Aleksandra Avramovna Derevskaya (1902-1959), who, between the two wars - the Civil and Great Patriotic War, raised 48 orphan children of different nationalities. After her death, each birthday, her large family gathers at the table, to preserve the tradition of serving baked potatoes, which was a favorite dish of the household head.
The Feast of the Baked Potato

Ukraine, 1920s. A gang of enemies of the Soviet government is rampaging in the village. Returning home, wounded 15-year-old Red Army soldier Fedya Panko decides to neutralize the enemy, who, as it turns out, operates not only on the battlefield.
Far Away, Across the River

A rich woman accidently comes across a conversation on the phone about people talking about a murder.
Empire

A young archaeologist arrives in a seaside town in order to find the famous statue of Aphrodite with an apple. Failure follows one another, and Levashov is ready to admit defeat. But suddenly love and new hope come.
Apple in the Palm

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After the Fair

After arguing with her mother and friend, Tanya wanders down the street and a female stranger gives her a free ticket to the theater. During the performance, a male stranger (Ivan) sits next to the protagonist. The young girl is at a crossroads: her parents insist that she should enter a pedagogical institute. But when you are 18, it seems that the whole world is at your feet. Therefore, the night before the exam the girl makes an important decision...
Before the Exam

Year 1917. Young doctor Valentin Voyno-Yasenetskyj with his wife and four children moved to Tashkent, beset by civil war and intervention. Voyno-Yasenetskyj became head physician in the city hospital. He not only saves hundreds of patients every day, operating under the bullets of the permanent street battles, fighting for his life and life of his beloved wife, dying of TB. In the midst of persecution, he as alone with four children on the outskirts of the former empire, so he decides to become a priest. And since then, he never altered neither scalpel, nor cross, he goes with them through all their hard exiles and arduous life, treating both: body and soul.
Luka

It is a screen adaption of the cognominal short story of Olha Kobylianska in which the struggle of the educated women with the bourgeois manners is described. Three girls from one family are very interested in the art and are going to devote a lifetime to it. But it is the beginning of the 20th century with all peculiar to that time disadvantages, and the way to the success is bestrewed with the difficulties.