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Browse 38 movies from Kyiv Film Studio
The main character repeats the destiny of many peasant women of her time. Her personal feelings were completely uninteresting to her parents, indeed they were always chasing after the profit. That’s why they married the daughter with a rich man whom was completely unpleasant to her. It is a screen adaption of Panas Myrny’s production.
Aug 1955
By Nikolai Gogol's "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden". Son of a stubborn mayor can not get his father's agreement to marry an ordinary peasant girl. Unexpectedly he gets the help from an "evil force"
Jan 1938
About hardships of the first years of War, which fell to the lot of ordinary people in Ukraine, who got under the yoke of fascist occupation, and heroic struggle against the invaders. A young Russian woman asks a Red Army soldier to spend the night with her in the wake of the Nazi invasion. Fearing she may soon perish, the woman hopes for one night of romance before what could be a horrible demise.
Aug 1967
Anatoliy Trifonov returns home after army service. He meets Raya, chairman's niece, who falls in love, but life takes its own course.
Mar 1983
A story about three young men - three best friends - and their adventures during the first years of Soviet Union.
Apr 1955
The beautiful Galya and the brave Cossack Nazar Stodolya fell passionately in love. But Gali's father, centurion Khoma Kichaty, wants to marry his daughter to an old but rich colonel. Next events are in movie.
May 1955
A spectacle version of Ivan Franko Theater, based on “The Candle of Fun” by Ivan Kocherga.
Jan 1962
On the patriotism of Ukrainian collective farmers. Tractor driver Andrei Stozhar decides to go to the Far East instead of his brother Maxim killed on the border.
Jan 1939
Fighting Film Collection No. 9 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 9) is the ninth issue of Boyevoy kinosbornik series, released in May 1942. It contains three segments: "Kvartal No.14/Block 14" (Savchenko), "Siniye skaly/The Blue Cliff" (or "Blue Crags") (Braun) and "Mayak/The Signal" (or "Beacon") (Donskoy).
May 1942
Cheerful and mischievous lad Gritsko offers young Parasya his hand and his heart on the first day of the fair in Sorochyntsi. The girl's father, Cherevik, presents no objection – her stepmother, however, is furious, and refuses to recognise their relationship; Cherevik drunkenly relents. Gritsko alone bemoans his sadness, whereupon a gypsy presents him a deal – Gritsko will sell his oxen to the gypsy if the latter can successfully make Parasya's parents accept their union.
Jun 1939
The struggle of an honest, innovative plant breeder against bureaucrats.
Dec 1940
Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of Ukraine in 1918 during World War I, and made as an example of the guerrilla warfare and fierce spirit in which Ukrainian peasants were again resisting Teuton onslaughts in 1939. Highlights a small band of guerrillas and their battles using scythes, shotguns and, often, just clubs against the Kaiser's army in the Ukrainian forests.
Jul 1939
Post-war reconstruction. New residents turn on their first television in their new apartment—a bulky bandura with a tiny screen. On the screen are Tarapunka and Shtepsel, who promise a real revue — more precisely, a tour of Kyiv. But how can you do a tour if you can't see anything from here, Tarapunka reasonably asks. They decide to climb the radio transmission tower.
Jan 1953
Having been wounded during the exercises, the sailor Fedos Chizhik is sent as a orderly to the house of Captain Luzgin. The captain's wife - a young, beautiful, and spoiled woman - is very hard on the orderly.
Jan 1955
A film about a youth team in a steelworks who fought to increase labor productivity. The film is lost.
Jan 1931
On the 'class struggle' in rural areas in 1929, when the first collective farms were being established.
Jan 1930
Polish anti-fascist Zygmunt Golemba, posing as Baron Fedrucci or a Catholic priest, blows up German headquarters, frees Polish prisoners, and kills Gestapo generals. His name becomes a symbol of revenge and hatred of the enemy...
May 1948
The film recreates the events of 1905. In the center of the picture is the struggle of the proletariat, led by the Bolshevik party, against tsarism. The demonstration of labor unrest is replaced by episodes of the Russo-Japanese war, Black-Hundred demonstrations, accompanied by a pogrom of Jews, and beating of the intelligentsia. The film paints the attitude of the Mensheviks towards armed insurrection, reproduces the picture of barricade battles, the arrest of the Council of Workers' Deputies and the brutal reprisals of the tsarist autocracy with revolutionaries.
Dec 1931
On a small island is a lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper, the old boatswain Yemelyan Leleka, lives here with his wife and daughter. The boat that delivers supplies is the only guest from the big world. Over time, the girl feels romantic feelings for the boat captain - Igor.
Aug 1957
Plant director Nazarov and engineer Petrov are constantly at odds with each other. Both dream of taking a vacation so they can spend some time apart. As it happens, they end up in the same mountaineering group. Petrov turns out to be the leader. It took the rigors of group life and considerable difficulties for Nazarov to understand how courageous, humane, and wholehearted Petrov is.
May 1958