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Browse 46 movies from Ukrainian News and Documentary Film Studio
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
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
Documentary about post-Soviet society’s abandonment of cinema in favour of the free market.
Jun 1995
The sad uniqueness of Ukraine is that it has witnesses of two generations who survived the experience of war in childhood.
Feb 2018
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
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
A film about the events of 1986 during the accident at the V. I. Lenin Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the fate of the first liquidators, and the city of Pripyat.
Jan 1992
Poet Borys Oliynyk, as well as party officials and local residents, recount the coordinated cleanup efforts following the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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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“.
Jan 1999
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
Two students without diplomas: Oles Sanin and Serhiy Mikhalchuk got hold of four boxes of long-expired black-and-white film, borrowed a camera from Ukrkinochronika, and went to the Carpathians, to those who live closer to God, and decided to meet the End of the World with them.
Jan 2001
The story of Mykola Sarma-Sokolovsky, an Orthodox priest who, defending the ideas of an independent Ukraine, devoted his entire life to the struggle for its independence. From a young age he was the leader of one of the underground units of the UPA. For his views and activities he served many years in Soviet concentration camps. Father Mykola is a gifted person in many ways: he is an artist, a poet, a bandura singer.
Jan 1996
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.
A short documentary.
The film is dedicated to the historical period of the XI-XIII centuries, the times of Kyivan Rus and the Galician principality.
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.
A documentary about the history of Ukrainian Cossacks in the Kuban.
The film is about Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, a folk poetess and collector of folk song pearls of the Hutsul region. The heroine of the film talks about her worldview, about the years spent in the Gulag, reads her own poems.
The film is dedicated to the events of the early eighteenth century, the time of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.