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Browse 54 movies from Ukrainfilm
A young farmer Ivan and his lazy father Stepan try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.
Nov 1932
An audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas region during the inaugural Soviet Five Year Plan. It spotlights anti-religious campaigns, propagandistic marches, and the vibrant athletic culture of its time
Nov 1930
Propaganda film on the participation of Komsomol members in the restoration of the coal industry of Donbas.
Dec 1931
About the uprising of Ukrainian peasants under the leadership of the national hero Karmelyuk against landowners and Polish gentry. In the 1830s, Young Count Piglovsky returns to his estate from Paris. The carriage in which he is riding is surrounded by rebellious peasants. Their attempt to hang the master is canceled almost at the last moment, because it is not the count in the carriage, but his lackey - Ustym Karmelyuk. Ustym really serves as a lackey in the count's house and at the same time leads a peasant uprising. The government sends the army. In a fierce fight, Karmelyuk is almost captured, but he is saved by one of the serfs.
Sep 1931
Russian Empire, 19th century. Poor Nykanor leaves his village and becomes a miner in the Donbas. His son Ostap also becomes a miner and works in the mine for thirty years, but after his father's sudden dismissal, he realizes that the state system needs radical changes.
May 1936
A young man, Ivan, is forcefully mobilised and sent to fight in the Caucasian War as a soldier of the Russian Empire by his landlord, leaving his wife behind. In the Caucasus, Ivas experiences the fierce local resistance to the Russian military, and returns home to launch an uprising against the Russian government.
Feb 1936
A young sportsman Grisha Fokin falls in love with Masha, the wife of an outstanding scientist - Yuliyan Nikolayevich Stepanov.
Dec 1935
Wartime documentary by Dovzhenko and Solntseva.
Apr 1940
Based on the Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi’s novel. At the distillery farmers begin to strike. Local rich men without punitive detachment begin reprisals from rebels. Punitive detachment of dragoons, who called from the city, only completes the massacre.
Jan 1931
About children's participation in the fight against kulaks.
Jul 1937
A boy named Tuk and his dog Zhuk have a vegetable garden, but their harvest is in danger from Pig and Fox who are looking for a quick profit.
Jan 1935
A peasant visits the DneproGES construction. Agitprop film about industrialisation and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction.
Mar 1931
A Black American worker travels to the USSR and experiences the racial solidarity of Soviet life.
The clockmaker practices what is known as \"parental rights\" – he mercilessly beats his son Boris for every misdemeanor. The boy grows up intimidated, angry, trusting no one, and befriending no one. One day, while the students at the polytechnic school where Boris studies are busy with a physical education class, he deliberately destroys a model that the students have worked so hard to build. The teacher prevents a cruel punishment of the culprit. The school community takes on the responsibility of re-educating Boris. Considered lost.
About a merry, smart boy Tom Sawyer, that, testing, as him it seemed to, all facilities, to be good, decided nevertheless to go away from home and become a marine robber.
Jan 1936
A wartime documentary directed by Alexander Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva, depicting the final campaigns that drove Nazi forces from Ukraine in 1944–45. Combining frontline footage, liberated cityscapes, and scenes of returning civilians, the film chronicles both the devastation of occupation and the triumph of Soviet arms. It stands as both a historical record of the Ukrainian front and a patriotic celebration of victory at the close of the Second World War.
Apr 1945
An episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.
Sep 1934
The animals make an agreement - to work and live in peace. Their "League of Nations" is joined by a fox who, having lulled the vigilance of his neighbors with the sweet melody of the barrel-organ with a picture of a dove of peace on it, insidiously breaks the agreement.
Jan 1937
The brave son of a woman inthe political underground tries to save her from Nazi stormtroopers.
Oct 1936
At the "Pupky" station, an opportunity occurs: two illegal passengers - guinea pigs - have to be disembarked from one of the trains, since animals cannot be transported in a general carriage. The head of the station Pryvychkin tries to help the animals, but the situation is beyond his control. The audit committee sets out to investigate the unpleasant incident... This witty satirical comedy, in which bureaucracy, bourgeoisie and provincialism are mocked, continued the development of the domestic comedy genre in Ukrainian Soviet cinema.
Feb 1931