The screen adaptation of Osip Turyansky's novel "Beyond the boundaries of Pain", which is considered one of the best works, depicting the First World War as a hell through which seven people doomed to death, including the future author of the novel, passed.
Bolshevik coup. Dying, old Bulyga decided to reconcile his sons, whose paths had diverged at the beginning of the revolution. That's why he called them. But the meeting of his brothers did not make him happy - they were deeply harboring enmity against each other. They buried their father. As soon as they left the village, a detachment broke into the village and began to rampage. And then the brothers rushed after the gang....
October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find and disarm explosives which are still guarded by SS special forces.
The story of the adventures of a shepherd who charms everyone he meets with his songs and unusual voice: harsh commissars, robbers, composers, and finally, a beautiful fisherwoman.
Prince Ihor is going to confront the enemy army from the Polovtsian Land. The solar eclipse foreshadows the fateful finale of the battle... Epic in content and stylized as Byzantine icons in form, the animation is inspired by Kyiv myths and the masterpiece of ancient Ukrainian lyrics "The Tale of Ihor's Campaign". The film won a special jury prize at the Nyon (Switzerland) festival.
This story took place in a village during the war. A horse left by the passing troops rescued all the locals, because it could be used to grind grain and it and to do hard work. Even though it was injured, it helped people by all means. But one boy acted badly, offending the horse and destroying the established order. Will he be able to return everything and be forgiven?
Based on the story of Marko Vovchok "Pavlо Chornokryl". Pavlo Chornokryl, passionate about young beauty Varka, kills his wife Anna for the opportunity to be with her mistress.
West of Ukraine, 1945. According to the intelligence of the First Ukrainian Front, a special detachment led by Hauptmann Hintze entered the Carpathian region in search of gold for the needs of Germany. In order to get ahead of the enemy, the Chekists recruit a forester. Together with the Chekist Olga, they are supposed to be looking for a place to cut down the forest. In fact, Krapivych is tasked with protecting Olga, who is gathering information about the actions of a German group of saboteurs, which she is hiding in a pursuit squad, and looking for gold ...
A fisheries inspector is killed while on night duty in a small fishing village on the shores of the Azov Sea. The murder draws the attention of the authorities and local residents to the problems of protecting and restoring the endangered nature of the once-rich region.
After his wedding, combine harvester operator Vasyl Bilan decided to immediately go to the Volga region for the harvest. There he received a memorable gift for his work. He wanted to return to his wife, but his friends called him to Altai — snow had fallen there and the grain was dying. He helped harvest the grain, and it became clear that without him, everything would be stolen for personal gain...
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.
Based on the novel by Olha Kobylyanska.
Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko goes for a walk in Kyiv. Along the way, his memory takes him back in time: first to his childhood in the village of Hrynky; to May 1861, when he attended Taras Shevchenko's funeral; to a trip to Leipzig; to the time when he was working on the opera "Taras Bulba"; to the images of Olha O'Connor and Olha Lypska, who gave him love, happiness, and inspiration.
A TV film based on O. Honchar's short story "Sunflowers" is a lyrical narrative about the village of the late 1960s-early 1970s of the last century, about its people, their soulful beauty and working days. A sculptor comes to one of the picturesque Ukrainian villages to create a portrait of the Hero of Socialist Labor Melanya Chobitko. The first meeting disappoints the artist, but seeing her in a collective farm field, the sculptor discovers her real human beauty.
Leytenant Astakhov is serving in the border where something serious happens almost every day.
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.
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.
In a small Ukrainian village Rudivka, where a rumor begins to circulate that the Second Coming is nigh and that the Messiah is already somewhere in the region, lived the twins. Local people were considering them being one person. The people had got scared, when one of the brothers was killed. They thought that supernatural forces took the law into their own hands. The thought pushed people to committing the terrible deeds. The guesswork brings serious consequences.
The story of war veteran Sviatoslav Yavir. He follows the secret train that transports to the Siberia Ukrainian women, including his wife and daughter, repressed by the totalitarian regime.
World War II scattered the Carpathian peasant family of Yaroslava Petrin. She is a dedicated communist, and her husband, son and daughter support OUN-UPA.
Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.
The film takes place in 1659 when Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son Yuri took power from Hetman Vyhovsky. Supporters of Bohdan Khmelnytsky are trying to help his daughter Olena to save her father's regalia - the symbol of Hetman's power and independence of Ukraine.
The new reality changes the usual life in the village of Babylon. Attempts to communize the small town are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance. Amidst the resistance philosopher Fabian returns to Babylon and tries to prevent bloodshed, but he meets a tragic fate.
The events take place in the XIX century, in the Carpathian mountains. It is the screen adaptation of the novel by Hnat Khotkevych based on the legend of brave leaders who fought against the Austrian Habsburgs and the Polish magnates for the happiness and freedom of its people. And also it is a romantic story about a fatal overwhelming love.
Kyiv. The State Institute of theatre of Karpenko-Kary opens its doors and welcomes new students, future artists: directors, actors, cameramen and script writers.
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.
At first playfully, and then seriously, the heroine falls in love with her friend's husband, who fights for social justice. Then there will be an arrest, exhausting interrogations of a police officer fascinated by her, involvement in the death of her lover. And that's not all...
A first of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
A second of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII.
A family drama about life of a few children in Ukraine during thirties.
The movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.
In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.
A prosperous and calm life in an instant explodes into a monstrous event, and nothing will ever be the same again. A terrible bleeding scar remains in the soul forever. One fine day, a young and charming archaeologist Alexei, five minutes later a doctor of science, learns that his sibling was buried alive. And the brother’s killer is alive and left unpunished. Blinded by grief, Alex decides to kill ...
Kolya Chimbartsev arrived at the boarding school of the port of Krasin from distant Odesa. He is to be met by his hydrologist father. But he has not returned from the scientific station located on the ice floe and has not made radio contact. Kolya and his new friends decide to go on the air themselves through the school radio station. Having broken the device and wanting to delay punishment, the guys are going to the movies. But when they hear a warning about a storm, they hide under the bed and fall asleep, leaving, however, a note that they are going to the movies. An alarm is sounded in the village: the children have gone out in the blizzard...
The love story of the NKVD lieutenant and the connected UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) on the eve of the end of World War II is a conflict of love and duty. There is a third hero in this story - this is an indifferent employee of the NKVD. For many years, he completely voluntarily helps the OUN-UPA, and waits for who will eventually become the winner, to whom, in the end, he will devote the rest of his life ...
1227, the last night of dying Genghis Khan. With promises and threats tyrant tries to persuade captive Otrar physician Akerke, the widow of the scientist, who was killed by Mongol soldiers, to save his life. But patriotic woman does not want to deliver the oppressor of his people and severely exposes his bloody tyranny of power.
A drama about educating homeless children based on the book by Anton Makarenko.
Love triangle revealed during a wedding is set to a backdrop of Ukrainian history and tradition, with questions of honor and faithfulness asked.
A completely true story about how a real-life Don Juan comes to a Bukovynsky border town and what happens as a result. In the center of the story is the Ukrainian maiden Marichka’s love, which takes place against the background of numerous coup d’états during the Second World War.
At the age of 18, Tatiana married Maxim, a widower, and became the mother of his three children. But soon her husband dies at the hands of bandits, and her relatives, seeking to take over the household, throw her out of the house. Some time later Tatiana marries Pavel, the father of four children, and by the age of 26 gives birth to three sons. But the war begins and with it come more severe trials....
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 natural disaster is approaching the city—weather forecasters report that a hurricane is coming. In this extreme situation, the complete incompetence of the people who are duty-bound to do everything possible to save the city from destruction has become apparent. The situation is further complicated by the fact that there is a large chemical plant in the city, the explosion of which would result in heavy casualties. The director of the plant, Gorev, decides to shut down the plant...
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...
World War II separates lovers Oksana and Anton. The young man is taken prisoner by the Germans, while his beloved abandons her studies at the conservatory to become a frontline nurse. Despite all the hardships, their paths cross again.
The main motive of the film - a tragic love of Lesya Ukrainka to Marxist revolutionary Sergei Merzhinskiy. The film is about the poetess' trip to her beloved, in the literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
The film is about the tragedy of two families when a pilot Roman and a flight attendant Olga died in a car accident. Olga and Aleksey's young son lost his mother, and Inga lost her loved one. As a devoted friend, Alexey does everything he can to make Inga's pain less unbearable. He drowned out his pain by caring for his son. But as time passes, wounds heal, the son grows up, and it turns out that Alexei is still the most loyal friend in Inga's life, and there is no one closer…
A fantasy film on the theme of the early works of Nikolai Gogol, tightly interwoven with his personality and biography.
Appearance of Coco the Clown and Peach the Pig in the circus is always a happy holiday for children and adults in a small town. But the terrible Chuchelische is ready to do whatever it takes for this celebration to not take place and make children's laughter turn to tears. At this time, the city government is in the hands of insidious Kibernator-General, which decides to close the circus, arrest Coco and make a stuffed out of Peach. Two friends, Kid and Slice, with a good and brave Captain Crocus decide to save Coco and Peach and return the children to the circus.
1920. Russian Civil War. Operation of GubCheka (Soviet police) to destroy one of the bands in Ukraine.
This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events in Ukraine in 1921 after the defeat of Ukrainian liberation struggle and the occupation of the country by invading Bolshevik hordes. The Bolsheviks are good guys and Ukrainian rebels refusing to submit to a new, this time Soviet, slavery are portrayed as bandits and brigands fighting against their own people.
A film based on the early stories of Boris Lavrenev. During the early years of the revolutionary movement, Second Lieutenant Izvolsky, a front-line soldier who is increasingly sympathetic to the underground revolutionaries, falls in love with the beautiful fisherwoman Marina. This romantic love, along with his interactions with the underground revolutionaries, further strengthens his commitment to the revolutionaries.
The 1920s. Count Kabardin, who emigrated to France, sends Colonel Lavrov to Russia with the aim of bringing his daughter Irina to Paris. Irina married Chekist Andrei Slavinsky and joined the revolution. Under the guise of a White Guard lieutenant, Andrei is sent to France. He carries out a secret intelligence mission. But Irina believes that her husband has died. The chairman of the Cheka, learning of Lavrov's visit, gives him the opportunity to take Irina to France and gives her a new assignment and a password for Andrei.
Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic made on the occasion of his 150th anniversary. It dwells on the first part of the Shevchenko's life leading up to the writing of his rebellious poem "A Dream" (A comedy). The film features the first appearance on the silver screen of the iconic Ukrainian actor Ivan Mykolaichuk (as Taras Shevchenko).
Based on Lesya Ukrainka's drama "The Stone Master". Without the permission of the king, in Seville, under the pretext of meeting his fiancée Dolores, returns the disgraced Don Juan, a thunderstorm of husbands and grooms. The loveable protagonist gained fame as a ladies man and a wild tempest of female reputations. But for Don Juan there are no barriers to the desired goal. This time he laid eyes on the lovely Donna Anna. Obsessed with a passion for her, the hero protects her ancestral castle from the Portuguese invading the country ...
A musical fairy tale for children about the adventures of blacksmith Mykhailo. On the way to the Zaporizhzhya Sich, the young blacksmith freed his beloved's brother. In the happy ending of the fairy tale, the main characters Mikhail and Lesya have a magnificent wedding.
The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince Ihor and became his successor on the throne after his murder and one of the most remarkable political leaders in early medieval European history. She converted to Christianity and brought her realm into Europe.
In the XIth century Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rus') reached its zenith under the reign of Yaroslav. He established enduring ties with many of the ruling European dynasties, strengthened the borders of Rus' and tried to free it from the influence of the Byzantine Empire. Since 988 the church of Rus' had been autonomous, apart from the right of Constantinople to appoint the Metropolitan.
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights. Now presumed dead by those he loves, he performs for the poor and unfortunate on his journeys through the wilderness. Parajanov's visually ravishing 'tableaux vivants' tell Lermontov's romantic tale while Turkish and Azerbaijani folk songs transport us into its mystical landscapes.
During the WWII, veteran Panas Petrovich Baida lost his son. Many years passed, and Panas Petrovich came to terms with his loss, hiding his grief deep in his heart. But one day, he heard news about children who had been saved by soldiers from the military. All the boys who did not remember their names were named Ivan Immortal. They are still alive today, but fate has scattered them to different corners of the country. Panas Petrovich sets out to visit each of them, hoping to recognize his son among them.
The dramatic story of the merchant's daughter, who became a brave fighter of the cavalry squadron of the red Army, later could not find herself in a peaceful life
The investigation of a complex, complicated case of the murder of an engineer, a former prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp. The criminal, one of the executioners of this camp, did not escape retribution.
The plot is based on the true facts of the heroic defense of Odesa during the Second World War. The first series, based on documentary material, is a series of events related to the defense of the city. The second series consists of individual novels dedicated to some of the characters in the film, which features 210 characters - bright characters of Odesa residents. The heroes get to the front line by tram, while the enemy is firing at the city with direct fire.
The path of a young revolutionary during the formation of Soviet power during the Bolshevik coup.
A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".
A friendly trial. Domestic cat Adam is accused of stealing sausage from the store, ducklings from the collective farm poultry farm and many other transgressions, which write off on the poor guy literally all the villagers ...
A participant in the war with the fascist regime, a Soviet soldier Chigorin, who bravely fought in Odessa, decides to return to the black sea city and walk through the memorable places where a lot of blood of brave defenders was shed for every inch of land. On the train, a random companion of the man becomes Katya, a charming young girl who asks Chigorin to tell about those events. Going headfirst into the memories, the former soldier begins his story, in which there is a place for selflessness, friendship, mutual assistance, love and heroism…
Professor Andrey Prikhodko is working on the problem of heart transplantation. On one of his happier days, the doctor decides to sort out his personal life and propose to his beloved Valentina. However, his son, who is still struggling to come to terms with the death of his mother, is against his father getting married. Realizing the complexity of the situation, Valentina breaks up with her beloved friend. Prykhodko finds the strength to overcome his depression and prepares for his first heart transplant operation.
After school, Victor is in no hurry to determine their future profession. So far, it works where it is necessary, nothing himself not particularly burdened. Unexpected acquaintance with Vera, a woman injured in a car accident that killed her mother, dramatically changes the life of Victor. And love has arisen between the girl gives the power to decide on the fourth and perhaps decisive step
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.
Anatoly Ruchyov is quite a talented guy. One day he decides to enter a prestigious Soviet university — the institute of international relations. But, alas, he overestimates his strength and doesn't achieve his goal. This saddens the young man a little, but he doesn't even think to lower his hands. Anatoly decides to go to military service and reach heights in this area. At first, it is a little lost, but, after the time has elapsed, it is mastered, because there is nowhere to go. Slowly he turns into a real exemplary fighter.
For several months, the investigation into the robbery of the cashier in the village of Airport. Assistants to the chief of criminal investigation department Mironov managed to find the direct traces leading to the thief-the recidivist Panasyuk serving sentence in a colony for small theft.
WWII, 1945. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instructs the reconnaissance group a difficult and dangerous operation — to obtain from the enemy a map of the mined sections of the river, which requires penetrating into the city captured by the Germans.
The plot is based on genuine events: a tendency to abandon subversive activities and surrender of one of the leaders of the Ukrainian counter-revolutionary underground, coroner general Y. Tyutyunnik. The young Chekist Sashko Kovalchuk infiltrates the Kiev counter-revolutionary underground.
The protagonists of the film, chekists Sasha Sizov and Ivan Shagin, take the confiscated jewels out of the city captured by the White Guards and deliver them to Kiev. Having returned to the city liberated by the Red Army, they expose a White Guard agent who has infiltrated the Cheka and take part in the defeat of Colonel Sherstev's gang.
The film takes place in the post-war years on the territory of Western Ukraine. A gang of Ren settled in one of the Carpathian villages. With her help, the leaders of the Ukrainian nationalists in Munich want to get the lists of Hitler's agents left behind during the retreat of the fascists.
Follows the adventures of the Amur Cossack Alexei Butov. As he went to the front in the First World War, so it went.
The story of the exposure by criminal investigation officers of a gang of criminals who steal and sell Soviet watch parts containing precious metals to foreigners. The plot centers on a duel between two heroes: a young, brave and charming investigator and a cold-blooded bandit villain named Krest.
Maria joins a Pentecostal sect. A young worker, Ivan, who has fallen in love with the girl, tries to save her from the sect's influence, but he is hindered by the head of the sect, the cruel and insidious Laguta, who plays a fatal role in Maria's fate.
Nikita Voronov, a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages, was fine: just a year before graduation, athletic success-he is a master of sports in judo, a good family, a beloved girl who agreed to wait a year before getting married. Nikita has a great idea of his future, he is used to winning.
Film about the painter Mikhail Vrubel's years in Kyiv, from a Sergei Parajanov script.
Based on the novel by Natan Rybak “Soldiers Without Uniforms”. Director of a research institute engaged in research in the field of nuclear physics, Maxim Nerchin is testing a new research method. And although the method did not justify itself, Nerchin with unreasonable confidence began to build a more powerful installation... He uses almost all the institute's funds to create it and is so sure of success that he loudly announced it at a foreign symposium, thereby causing special attention to his institute on the part of those American circles who are primarily interested in creating weapons that bring death and destruction...
The events of the film cover the story of the Kotsiubynsky family in the years 1912-1918, ending with the defeat of the Central Rada and the establishment of a Soviet republic in Ukraine in the spring of 1918.
Shura, a telephone operator, is disliked by her management for her straightforward demeanor. One day, a limping newcomer with the strange surname Prosvirnjak arrives, and Shura takes an instant antipathy to him.
After the end of the Civil War, nurse and intelligence officer Anna Dzyuba returns to her hometown with her commissar husband. Here she has to make a difficult choice between ideological associates who establish Soviet power and childhood friends associated with the anti-Soviet underground.
A seriously ill patient is brought to the clinic of a research institute. Young doctor Falko, a resident at the institute, insists on an urgent operation, but his supervisor Druz believes that in this case therapeutic treatment will be more effective and, moreover, will not be associated with risk. Professor Shostenko nevertheless undertakes to operate on the patient. The successfully completed operation confirms the diagnosis made by Falko. Parallel to the events in the clinic, the action unfolds in the house of the director of the institute Shostenko, where his son Igor returns after a three-year absence. The complicated relationship between Igor and his wife, the love story of Shostenko's daughter and Druz - the canvas of the second plot of the film.
A family struggles to survive in an area that was claimed as part of Rumania, Poland and the Ukraine, all within a short span of time. When World War II comes, various family members choose different masters; some even choose to work for the Soviets. War, struggle, marriages, births, deaths--all these events punctuate the story of this large family.
Three women who were evacuated during the war are returning to their homeland, carrying with them a heavy chest with spare parts for tractors.
The film tells the story of the heroism of Private Vladimir Kharazia in World War II.
About love and loyalty, which helps to withstand the trials of fate in the most difficult times. The film features Svitlana Knyazeva and Leonid Osyka, Kateryna and Boryslav Brondukov', Kostyantyn Stepankov and Ada Rogovtseva.
The film depicts the challenging daily life of rural workers.