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Browse 46 movies from Ukrainian News and Documentary Film Studio
An outstanding poet, student of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Vinhranovsky reads excerpts from his teacher's diary, comments on it - thereby emphasizing the tragic fate of the great artist. The film uses a chronicle of the war and post-war years.
Jan 1992
To be able to somehow survive, two students pretend to be businessmen from a fictional international business company. Acquainted with several girls, they choose the richest one and marry her. This is followed by a robbery and a search for the criminals by the police.
Jan 1993
A documentary about the history of Ukrainian Cossacks in the Kuban.
The figure of the world-famous Ukrainian artist Ivan Fedorovych Marchuk, whose paintings present Ukrainian art on all continents of the world, became the basis of this documentary.
Jan 1998
A music film about the revival of Ukrainian songwriting. Ukrainian artists and poets reflect on the place and prospects of the nation in history.
The film is dedicated to the historical period of the XI-XIII centuries, the times of Kyivan Rus and the Galician principality.
Meditative and quiet movie about transphormations of Dnipro river in Ukraine, that touches theme of collective versus individual rights, filmed in the dusk of USSR.
Jan 1988
The film is dedicated to the events of the early eighteenth century, the time of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.
The documentary about the destinies of women who lived or are living in different regions of Ukraine, and explores their destinies in the present. The film tells about the fate of the heroines of the film "Declaration of Love" (1966) Tekla Barmashova (killed in 1922), veterans Elizaveta Marapulets (died in 1982), Maria Lahunova (died in 1995), agronomist Maria Molodyk-Kryvokulska, milkmaid, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR Nina Sribna-Babenko, violinist Lyubov Chaikovska and glider, master of sports Zinaida Solovei. Female heroines and their loved ones share memories, problems, talk about modern Ukraine.
Jan 1999
The subjective-personal context is perceived as an objective document of the era, a true testimony of the time when it was created and experienced. The author reflects on events of different historical scale, but equally significant for a person. The film is built on the principle of montage of free associations: from memories of the grandmother and reflections on "the time of our grandmothers" to the image of Vira Kholodnaya as the embodiment of femininity, and then - at a sharp turn - to the problems of inter-ethnic conflicts.
A movie shot in almost one single take. The parable should not be interpreted in words.
Documentary about post-Soviet society’s abandonment of cinema in favour of the free market.
Jun 1995
The film was shot in the village of Rusyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Once, a local resident erected a memorial stone cross here in memory of himself when he was leaving for Canada with his family. Vasyl Stefanyk recorded this story here, and in 1968 Leonid Osyka filmed it in Rusyn. Thirty years later, his student Oles Sanin returned to tell the story of the film's creation, talk to the local participants in the filming, and show them “The Stone Cross“.
About the difficult fate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The film contains 4 parts: "Wreath of Thorns", "Ridges on me", "Neophytes", "And not the seventh seal".
Jan 1995
Shot at a children’s cemetery seven years after Chornobyl. The author is delicately showing human grief from the point of view of not an outside observer trying to shoot reportage but a parent like his heroes. The death of an adult is a tragedy, while child’s death is a catastrophe. As long as such cemeteries exist, this pain will exist, too.
Mykhailo Kolobok, a People's Artist who lost his bearings in life, became addicted to alcohol, and began to lose his family, his job, and his purpose in life. Only thanks to the powerful emotion of love does the main character change, and a completely different life begins for him. Partly inspired by the biography of the famous Ukrainian comedian Mykola Fedorovych Yakovchenko.
Jan 2006
The film features the special world of the Bekendor fishing village of Bessarabian wine lands, Odesa region, Ukraine, with its daily joys and concerns, calm life and courageous characters, real human virtues and daily struggle with the sea.
Jul 2014