Antonina Leftiy

Pie With a Laughingstock

Follows the amazing city of Smekhograd. The day of Laughter and Fun came to Smekhograd and a carnival was announced. All the inhabitants of this magical city began to diligently prepare for the holiday and make funny masks. Only the three-headed Dragon was unhappy with the upcoming holiday and decided to ruin it.…

Don't Believe the Cry of a Night Bird

Immediately after the war, veteran Vasile Karuntu came to the machine-building plant where Ion worked, who soon became a foreman. They both fell in love with Maria, but she married Vasile. With Maria, he created a family, raised four children, three of whom are adopted orphans. And now, many years after the first rivalry, the management of the plant releases Jonah from the foreman and appoints Vasile instead...

The Sea

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.

The Two

Two young people cannot understand each other.

Reapers

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...

The Stone Host

TV adaptation of Lesya Ukrainka's drama, which interprets the plot of Don Juan from a feminist point of view.

Gregory, Don't Go to the Village Dances

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.

I Want to Believe

Young journalist is investigating some tragic moments from the history of WWII.

The Stone Cross

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.

The Troubled Month of Veresen

Autumn 1944. Wounded scout returns to his home village only to fight with bandits.

Zakhar Berkut

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.

That's the Game

A conflict between the football team's coach and its best players, Bushuev and Milenkov, led to the players leaving the team. Milenkov returned to the research institute, while Bushuev moved to a provincial town, became a coach, and, basing his training on a scientific approach to the game, achieved great success in a short period of time...

Still Waters are Deep

At the site where Mikhail Sveshnev was working, the roof collapsed, crushing one of the miners. At the risk of his life, Mikhail saved his comrade, but the foreman lied to Sveshnev and blamed him for the accident. The commission identified the true culprits of the accident, but Mikhail, feeling alienated by the team, left for home. Thinking about what had happened and failing to find a job to his liking, he returned to the mine.

Harmony

The gifted designer-designer German Baklanov does not want to be a pawn in the hands of his boss, but wants independent, creative work. He forces the management of the Design Bureau to announce a competition for the development of a new tractor model, and he heads one of the creative groups.

Kyiv Frescoes

Parajanov's collage of all the footage that remained from his film "Kyiv Frescoes," which was halted by the authorities who demanded that all the negatives be destroyed.

Tenderness for the Roaring Beast

Based on the novel of the same name by A. Bakhvalov. The plot is based on a story-interview about the testing of the new strategic missile carrier Tu-22K and Tu-22M2/M3 (for well-known reasons, in close-ups, instead of them, the film shot the then less secret Tu-134 UBL - a combat training laboratory) and the tragic events associated with them, given to journalist Odintsov by test pilot Borovsky. Testing of a new jet aircraft, the psychology of human life, the problems and joys of life of pilots - all this is closely intertwined in the film. The heroes of the film - friends test pilots Dolotov and Sanin - have walked together all their lives. But it so happened that one of them, Dolotov, was once unfairly suspended from flying, while Sanin failed to protect and support his friend. Friends' paths diverged...

Shattered Sky

1918. A group of Russian aviators who had been training in France return to Russia and join the White Army. However, two pilots soon switch sides and fight in the Red Army's first aviation unit.

Red Shoes

About the adventures of a little girl Mariyka in a magical forest.

The Grandfather of the Left Winger

Trofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.

Love Awaits Those Who Return

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.

The Hiding Place By the Red Rocks

Foreign intelligence agent Mirsayid, captured by Soviet border guards, is sentenced by a court to a maximum security prison. He manages to conceal the location of the cache where the map is stored. Soon, new agents, Loinab and Guliam, successfully cross the border. Their goal is simple: to visit Mirsayid in the colony, find out the location of the cache, and retrieve the hidden map. The Chekists give them complete freedom of action for the time being.

Entering the Sea

A poetical story about little girl who feels alone even on a beach full of people.

Ostrov Volchiy

The year is 1962. Returning after an important mission, the polar aviation pilot Tagilov saves a young woman, Tatyana, who is stranded on a chipped ice floe. She is a doctor.

How the Steel Was Tempered

The path of a young revolutionary during the formation of Soviet power during the Bolshevik coup.

To Love

Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The stories are interconnected by documentary shots and numerous interviews taken on the streets from passers-by who are asked the same question: “what does it mean to love?”.

Zozulya with Diploma

USSR of 70th years of the twentieth century. Maxim Zozulya is graduating from school and trying to find his place in life. Everything was pretty evenly before Natalia has won Maxim’s heart. Her character and appearance has attracted protagonist. However, to achieve reciprocity, Maxim will have to pass many difficult situations.

Autumn Storms

For some time now, life in the family of Kozma Josan, the chairman of a collective farm in one of the Moldovan villages, has not been going well. In response to the indifference of his wife, Domnica, the Goat fell in love with Olga, a fellow villager, who reciprocated his feelings. But their happiness is like wormwood, bitter: everywhere they are haunted by Domnica's heavy gaze, in which anxiety and pain are frozen.