Browse 54 movies from Kyivnaukfilm
A two-part documentary about Doomsday sectarians.
Jan 1995
A cinematic portrait of Ivan Kozlovsky a great Soviet and Ukrainian lyric tenor and opera director.
Oct 1978
The events of 1935–36 sent scientists, cultural figures, and Comintern workers to Solovki. Instead of a realm of free labor, there were prisons and camps; instead of blue socialism, there was the tyranny of petty Macbeths at the bottom of the camp hierarchy. This is a short documentary about Les Kurbas, a Ukrainian playwright.
Dec 1991
About the fate of the great poet's legacy, which was collected and preserved by his friends and is now kept at the Taras Shevchenko State Museum in Kyiv.
Fate did not spare him trials and tribulations. It is impossible to imagine a more shameful punishment than being deprived of the right to write and paint, than years of exile as a soldier in the Orenburg Corps. However, military service did not destroy Taras's faith in God and people.
Jan 1996
Mykola Zerov was another prisoner of the Solovki camps. He was an outstanding Ukrainian poet, an excellent translator of ancient works, and a scholar of philology. Like others, he was destroyed by the repressive machine on Solovki.
Jan 1992
The trials and tribulations of the wives and daughters of repressed "counterrevolutionaries" who shared the fate of their relatives in the Solovki camps.
The events of 1935–36 sent scientists, cultural figures, and Comintern workers to Solovki. Instead of a realm of free labor, there were prisons and camps; instead of blue socialism, there was the tyranny of petty Macbeths at the bottom of the camp hierarchy. This is a short documentary about Mykola Kulish, a Ukrainian writer.
A short documentary.
Jan 1994
The characters in the film try to understand the bioenergetic and informational influence of works of art on the psychological state of the viewer and listener. Scientists, psychologists, psychotherapists, a composer, and an artist seek answers to the question: why do some works depress, others pacify, and still others evoke feelings of joy? Is it possible to use this to treat people?
About the renowned clinician, scientist, and first academician among Ukrainian physicians, Teofil Gavrilovich Yanovsky, who valued compassion above worldly fame. All of Kyiv attended the funeral of the Doctor in 1928.
Jan 1993
The revolutionary masses march in ornamental unity from the October Revolution of 1917 towards a radiant communist future. The film combines documentary footage from the period of the so-called Brezhnev Stagnation with psychedelic visions of the future, featuring peaceful nuclear energy and the conquest of other planets — achievements imagined to be realised by 2017.
Jan 1977
The outstanding Ukrainian artist Heorhii Narbut lived at the turn of two centuries and died young in 1920. He was enamored with the magazine "The World of Art," studied in Munich, and witnessed the beginning and end of the Ukrainian revolution. His illustrations for Andersen's "The Nightingale" are known to more than one generation of readers.
The history and present day of Kyiv's cemeteries.
Ukraine in 1917-1918. Insightful lines from the "Diary" belonging to writer and politician Volodymyr Vynnychenko, footage from newsreels.
A short art documentary.
The story of an old Bukovinian who returned to his homeland after some time. His heart rejoices at the magnificent scenery of the Carpathian Mountains, his meeting with Chernivtsi, folk customs, and folklore creations.
