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Browse 10 movies from Kyiv State I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Institute of Theater Arts
Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s unfinished novella. At the end of the 19th century, a Ukrainian boy, Petro, is torn from his home and beloved and conscripted into the Russian army.
Jan 1970
Course work in Artur Voitetsky's workshop. Screen adaptation of Ilya Zverev's story. A school class agrees to never lie again. Suddenly, it turns out that the adults who had taught their children not to lie do not like the change in their behavior.
An intellectual and writer involved in underground revolutionary activity is imprisoned, where his convictions and will are put to the test. Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s short story “Mistake (Thoughts of a Prisoner)”.
Based on the short story by Ray Bradbury. Two knights travel across desolate lands to face the Dragon in a doomed battle.
Nov 1984
Jan 1976
Sketches from the life of an unnamed Middle Eastern country. The film features poems by Palestinian poet Muin Bseiso (1930–1984).
Jan 1980
A father sees his son off on his final journey. Based on the story by Borys Hrinchenko.
Jan 1969
A man tired of the big city returnes to the village and suddenly strikes up a close friendship with a local deaf boy.
Jan 1972
Based on the short story “Too Late” by Latvian writer Egils Lukjanskis about one family that helped a German soldier during World War II.
An engaged young man returns to his native village with his fiancée. Amid pastoral fields of dandelions, memories resurface of a youthful love for a local girl, Lida.