Volodymyr Artemenko

A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he secretly crosses the US-Mexico border, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together.

Documentary about Vadym Yakovych Boyko, Ukrainian writer, novelist, prisoner of Auschwitz.

Documentary about the problems of lonely old age of pensioners of Chornobayiv District, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine; pensioners give interviews during household work.

To be able to somehow survive, two students pretend to be businessmen from a fictional international business company. Acquainted with several girls, they choose the richest one and marry her. This is followed by a robbery and a search for the criminals by the police.

In 1983, the documentary film "Soldier's Widows" was released on the screens of Ukraine, created by director Volodymyr Artemenko, whose father died at the front, and nine aunts remained widows. Based on real events, the picture about one small village of Melnyky in Cherkasy region, where a large number of widows lived, made a strong impression, because there were many such villages in Ukraine. At the Berlin Film Festival, one of the foreign film critics called Ukrainian widows the Madonnas of the 20th century.

The film is about the demographic and environmental problems of Ukrainian villages. The film shows the resettlement of people from the radioactive contamination zone, the Kremenchuk reservoir, a wedding celebration, a child's baptism, etc.

A film about the events of 1986 during the accident at the V. I. Lenin Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the fate of the first liquidators, and the city of Pripyat.

The protagonist of the film is the director's fellow villager Dmytro Fedorivskyi, nicknamed Mytia Karakhanchyk. He is a simple man - a farm loader who transports milk to the factory in the district, but he has so much humanity and warmth in him. He would bring medicine to someone from the district, buy some groceries for someone, or shovel snow near a widow's house. He was truly a merciful soul for many elderly people in his village.

Mykhailo Kolobok, a People's Artist who lost his bearings in life, became addicted to alcohol, and began to lose his family, his job, and his purpose in life. Only thanks to the powerful emotion of love does the main character change, and a completely different life begins for him. Partly inspired by the biography of the famous Ukrainian comedian Mykola Fedorovych Yakovchenko.

The film directed by V. Artemenko is dedicated to the members of the village orchestra of his native village of Melnyky, Chornobai district, Cherkasy region, who died during the war and who died of wounds. When the famous sculptor Anatoliy Khorechko saw film "Village Orchestra", he put aside all his affairs, left the city and for three years lived in the village of Melnyky and built a monument to the deceased orchestra players.

A boy named Roman appears in a village—an accidental drifter with no parents and no home. He is driven away from everywhere, yet he harbors no ill will toward anyone.