Browse 56 movies from Odesa Film Studio
The movie examines the lives of the not-so-fortunate dregs of society through absurdist comedy. The unfortunates of the title are mentally challenged people, some of whom could be termed insane - or merely inane.
Feb 2001
Four veteran pilots were invited by the leadership of the military unit to perform a special task. And it does not matter that they haggle in the market, because everything that happens — it's just a dream…
May 1993
1971, Odesa Film Studio. The KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of just finished movie about the events of Ukraine’s 1920s "civil war" of a young director in line with the Party’s view on the historical events. This re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, which consequently realizes she must protect the director’s vision and the safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet occupation.
Apr 2018
Mariupol. Pre-war life in a small Ukrainian town on the shore of the Azov Sea, with a good family life, quarrelsome neighbors, amateur opera, denunciations to the NKVD, and a dance floor in the city garden, the persecution of religion and, of course, with love.
Nov 2021
Isaac Rubinchik, like a biblical old man who has lived a long and dramatic life, feels the need for moral reflection on his experiences. Disputes with long-dead relatives, a glance into the future, which he sees in the ruins of civilization - all these memories and fears make Rubinchik reevaluate many things and bring closer the moment of his spiritual epiphany.
Jan 1992
Son Kale Hacibey is a historical action film that tells the story of a battle between the Turkish Ottoman Empire and the Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire on the one hand, and the Russian Empire on the other hand. The forces are fighting to gain control of the Hacibey Castle, an impenetrable fortress located on the Black Sea coast in the heart of Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire. And just when the Russians thought they were winning the battle against Ukrainians and Turks, a mysterious hero - a brave Ukrainian cossack warrior Andriy - arrives in Istambul to deliver a secret message from from Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire's leadership. A message that can forever change the course of this battle.
Oct 2020
The young talented actress Vera Samarina, has an interesting job, fame, plans for the future and a loving husband Igor, a failed actor. She goes for the shooting, leaving her husband, an unemployed actor, in despair. By agreeing to become a racketeer, he does not even suspect an inevitable tragic end. While the young woman sorts out her emotional experiences on the set by the sea, her husband specializes in knocking out other people's debts and other not very legal and dangerous activities.
Jan 1993
A dramatic love triangle between young boy and two girls from different worlds: cute American schoolgirl and painful, loveless student in Soviet boarding school.
Jun 1993
The chief of the airline agency gives the command to the special team not to drink, not to stand in the drafts and not to have contact with the girls, as these guys will have to hijack their own plane ... In order to identify weaknesses in the aviation services. During its implementation, our heroes are faced with real terrorists - this was not taken into account.
A day in the life of a mother and her daughter, who have already reached a stage in life where their age difference is barely noticeable. One day, the two are visited by a young official who quite unwittingly makes the mother feel young again, and so she decides to set out for a walk by the river together with her daughter. It becomes increasingly clear to both of them that the best days of their lives are past and that they make a ludicrous impression wherever they go. However, they somehow keep their spirits up and try to enjoy this last walk together. They both know that this is the very last of the ‘grand days’ of their lives.
Jun 2007
A religious socio-political publicistic drama set in the 1960s-70s in the territory of the USSR.
Apr 1994
Ukrainian Odesa, 1926: a city recovering from the war, a city where jazz sounds and cinema is born. Young artist Sashko Dovzhenko seeks freedom in art - and stumbles upon a system that does not forgive dreams. His first film may be his last. And he does not yet know that soon his name will be known to the whole world.
Sep 2026
Few weeks of Taras Shevchenko in Kazakhstan exile, before his discharge out of army, when agents of the secret police were in hot pursuit of him.
Sep 2020
Constantly flashing on the television screen in a variety of commercials, bachelor Valentin Ivanyuta becomes the victim of pills he advertised and becomes pregnant. And now the popular hero of the TV screen will have to talk with the woman he loved and to experience the whole range of feelings unusual for a man.
Jan 1994
A series of events brings the Bulgarian Fori to the Danube Delta. In the Ukrainian city of Vylkove, due to random tragic circumstances, Fori finds himself in custody. But in this town the hero meets true love, and the beauty and spiritual atmosphere of "Ukrainian Venice" gives him the feeling that this is the place he was looking for all his life.
Jul 2023
Anya is brought up in an orphanage, she has been in the school of ballroom dancing. She falls in love with the head of school, who is much older than her. After a quarrel with him Anya throws the newly born child in the hospital and goes to the village where settles in an abandoned house. Her peer Sanya, who secretly and hopelessly in love with Anya, leaves the children's home together with her. At first, he seems to be a child, unable to take a serious and responsible decisions, but gradually Anya sees that he grows up and falls in love with him.
Dec 1993
Presidential order forces children of the officials who are working and studying abroad to return, so chief of police Petro Burundiak has his son Vasyl back in Ukraine and working as a police freshman.
Mar 2021
A story about love and friendship between two kids - owners of Great Danes.
Jun 1995
A strange man intervenes between ex-spouses on a matter directly related to a large sum of money one of them had secured after selling a piece of property.
Apr 2007
A free adaptation of Franz Kafka’s diary entries. A celebrated writer is widely regarded as a genius. But behind the mask of a thoughtful, smiling face hides an unhappy man with his own demons, fears, creative torment, and endless search for self and the surrounding world—an eternal outsider, condemned to loneliness among people, who feels himself as the Other.