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Documentary about post-Soviet society’s abandonment of cinema in favour of the free market.
Based on the work of Yurii Mushketyk "Yasa". The action of the picture takes place in the 17th century, when Ukraine, led by the legendary Ivan Sirko, was defending itself from Tatar raids. A story of Ivan Sirko, the legendary Ukrainian originally from the Merefa county near Kharkiv, who was elected the leader of Cossacks eight times, bravely fought and won 53 major battles.
The continuation of adventures of a heroes of "Scheherazade's 1002nd Night"...
The story of the life of the Podolsk village and what the inhabitants of the village had to go through during the years of Soviet power. Through the fate of the heroes, the film tells about the events of collectivization in the village, where for centuries, everyone used to work only on his own farm, about the war years, when many quiet people showed miracles of heroism, and universal favorites became nazi puppets.
This is a documentary movie about one of the most important figures in the Soviet cinema - Leonid Bykov. No doubt, his biography and career deserve to become be acquainted with. In the Bykov's life a lot of funny stories and serious dramatic events happened. That will be interesting to Leonid’s fans and all those interested in the history of Soviet culture.
This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.
In the dark days of Nazi occupation, a young Hutsul girl native to the Carpathian mountains falls in love with a wounded Soviet partisan. Their affair sets in motion a tragic chain of events, as her family turns against her with shocking results.
XIII century. Prince Daniel of Galicia returned from the Horde, where he graciously have allowed to rule in Galicia in exchange for recognition his submission to Khan. But he can not accept the humiliation. He begins to prepare for war with the hordes of Batu, who conquered many Russian principalities. The Hungarian king, Lithuanians and Poles promised to support Daniel, but Pope Innocent IV refuses to lend a hand. Daniel's army is compelled to reflect the invasion of nomads herself.
The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
Village boy Klimko, accompanying his father to the front, stays with his stepmother. In the occupied village, the hero cannot see his friends. Having survived hunger, injuries and loneliness, the boy enters a vocational school - nine kilometers from the village - and works with new friends for the front...
The action takes place in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the First World War. The plot - twists and turns of life's journey of the traveler, adventurer, traveling actor and philosopher Ivan Kalita.
Based on the novel by Olha Kobylyanska.
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The young, curious journalist Sofia meets the investigator Bohdan Mazepa under tragic circumstances. Soon their paths intersect: Sofia receives the task to write an article about our valorous militia, where that very successful captain having no unsolved cases is to appear as the protagonist. Except for one. What secrets does this case hide and how will the fates of Bohdan and Sofia develop, will love be able to survive the frightful truth?
A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
Three friends in a summer camp are looking for a treasure hidden in a old mansion.
Based on the short story by Oles Honchar. A budding romance, on the verge of blossoming into love, develops between two young people—Petro and Olga—who are just beginning their independent lives. But an unexpected gunshot in the nature reserve, which kills a swan, shatters the young couple’s potential happiness...
Dedicated to the life and work of the Ukrainian singer Solomiya Krushelnytska (1873-1952), the owner of a voice of extraordinary beauty and strength. In 1893-1939 she performed in opera theaters in Europe and America, in 1939 she returned to her homeland. The film is based on the real facts of the singer's life and is constructed as her memoirs.
The film is about goodness and the strength of the human spirit. "I will discover the homeland of the bird, and people will believe that there is goodness..." wrote the Russian geographer Shavanosov, a dreamer and romantic who paid with his life for discovering the nesting place of the pink gull in the Kolyma region. The protagonist of the film, Alexander Ivakin, dreams of becoming a traveler, finding traces of Shavanosov, continuing his work, and seeing the pink gull.
