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Heorhii Fomin

Heorhii Fomin

Directing

Biography

Heorhii Fomin was a Ukrainian film director, writer, and journalist. Born in 1969 in Nizhny Tagil, he moved to Kyiv at the age of sixteen. In the 1990s, he wrote for the satirical magazine Blin. Fomin combined his work as a butcher with journalism. He was well acquainted with the criminal underworld and was known for his sharp, dark humor — a hallmark of his creative style. Fomin studied in the film directing workshop of Yurii Illienko and, in 1998, defended his diploma film The Elevator Operator. He later worked as Illienko’s assistant on A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa. Throughout his life, Fomin published in various magazines and took part in numerous projects in both theater and cinema. His feature-length directorial debut, September, was released posthumously in 2023. Heorhii Fomin passed away in 2021.

Known For

Match
5.1

Based on the true story of the "death match" where the Soviet team "Start" scored its second victory over the German team «Flakelf» on August 9, 1942

Match

2012
A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
5.3

During an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power, Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.

A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

2003
Eight
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Six novellas present eight people who resolve to commit suicide. The stories interweave moments from disparate lives, each born of despair and urgent choice.

Eight

2016
Bloody September
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Theater and film actor, Mykola Veresen' dies on the set while performing the role of Ivan the Terrible. In the moment of death, his karma transforms into the bloody murderer he embodied, and he falls into Sheol, a common grave for all the dead. The time has a different flow here, the only feelings left are fear and pain. In hell Mykola learns about the confrontation that last for centuries between the white and black vampires, he becomes a puppet in the cruel guerrilla of these two supernatural groups.

Bloody September

2023
Ave Maria
9.0

Once in the underpass at the Philharmonic, a singer Lyudmila hears a heavenly voice of a beggar-girl singing "Ave Maria" ...

Ave Maria

1999
Bug
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Two theater actors were mistakenly captured by Chechen militants. In order to postpone their death, they are forced to play Chekhov's plays in a "modern adaptation".

Bug

2015
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The end of the world isn’t a global catastrophe, but an inner sense of total collapse, like for a man who’s lost his job and doubts his wife’s loyalty. In despair, he goes fishing and finds a wounded angel. He takes the angel home on his bicycle and introduces him to his family. But soon after, during a party at a local bar, the angel is accidentally shot by a neighborhood policeman. Based on Gabriel García Márquez’s short story 'A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings'.

On the Edge of the World

2002
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A short documentary about the Equitas team in the jungles of Africa, following in the footsteps of poet and traveler Nikolai Gumilev.

Tree of Knowledge

2000
Lifter
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An original dark comedy, at times a crime-infused mystical parable, tells the story of a debt collector, his debtors, and an elevator operator, all caught in the chaos of the turbulent 1990s.

Lifter

1998