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«UKRAINE: SURVING IN FIRE»
Ukraine, 2014
AVAILABLE : WORLDWIDE
Language: Ukrainian, English subtitles
«UKRAINE: SURVING IN FIRE». Film 1. After liberation
23 ‘00” / 2014 / HD / Ukrainian + English subtitles
Seven days in the cellar, nearly a month in the den of prorussian terrorists. Hystories of three families from
Lysychansk, they are now lrearning to live without WAR.
Sasha- has grown greyer at five and a half years when the separatists were shooting after him.
Alenka and Polina - even after the town being fired are scared to leave their cellar.
Dasha has seen her Dad being captured.
Now their houses are destroyed by separatists. They have to prepare their food on the fire.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rig_SMGVGU&feature=youtu.be
01103, Ukraine, Kiev, P.O. Box 54
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«UKRAINE: SURVING IN FIRE». Film 2. Front line
32’30” / 2014 / HD / Ukrainian + English subtitles
The film tells about the life of some battalions at the firing line. This is a story adout the guys having
survived GRADS, ambushes, treachery. This is about the soldiers of Donbass battalion having been
surrounded at Yilovaysk .About Kyivska Rus battalion that lost their commander in one of battles.About
secret service men who had lain in Russian military men ambush because of mistake in the coordinate
information given by the leadership of one of the sectors in ATO zone.About artillery men, tank men,
mortar men every day living under enemy's shelling. In this series we also tell about the guys who were
standing on the opposite side during the Revolution of Dignity, but now they are defending their country
together with Maydan people. One of episodes tells about their service at the far Ukrainian road block near
Lugansk and how one night they met a Rusiian war column .
For the heroes of this film every blessing day may become the last day in their life. Many of them are not
amongst the alive, some are reported missing, or are still being held in captivity
Link*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcCz0KqD-1w#t=1755
* will be subtitled in English in the near future
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"I AM A MONUMENT TO MYSELF"
58 min / Ukraine / 2010
Language: Ukrainian, English subtitles
DEMO: http://vimeo.com/32840916
The land of Western Ukraine has always been in the crossroads of interests of many countries. This
resulted in human lives being intertwined in the most peculiar ways. The character of Eugen Hvatov
performs an important social mission: he deals with memory. Since childhood he has demonstrated
strange love for graves, at present he is the author of more than 100 memorials. His homespun philosophy
combines cosmopolitanism and asceticism with an active and provocative role in daily life of the local
community. His monuments stop people from forgetting, they teach them to remember their history and
their ancestors. In the course of the film we watch making and setting of the memorial to German soldiers
fallen in actions which took place near the village and some more gestures of reconciliation by this non-conventional
character.
Molodist international film festival 2010– the best film Ukrainian documentary
NYC kinofest - New York, USA, February 2010
Docudays Human Rights Film Festival – Kyiv, Ukraine, March 2010
GoEast Film Festival – Wiesbaden, Germany, April 2010
Golden Pectoral TV film festival – Truskavec, Ukraine, best historical documentary - Krakow film
festival – Krakow, Poland, May 2010
Brave festival – Wroclav, Poland, July 2010
Tranzit film festival – Poznan, Poland, August 2010
KinoLev film festival – Lviv, Ukraine, August 2010, The best Ukrainian documentary
CinePecs film festival – Budapest, Hungary, October 2010
Romania International film festival – Buharest, Romania, October 2010
Pravo Ljudske Film festival – Sarajevo, November 2010
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«AMOSOV–CENTENARY»
59 min, HD
Ukraine, 2013
Language of original version: Rus + English subtitles
demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-tma72puCY&feature=youtu.be
Nikolay Amosov is the surgeon of world renown, the author of many popular books on health.
During his lifetime, Nikolay Amosov managed to do a lot. His inheritance - tens of thousands of lives saved,
generation of talented physicians, established Institute.. He had a unique ability to cause a revolutionary
leap forward in any direction he was working in.
The story about his fate and achievements in itself worthes an adaptation. But this movie is not just
about what Nikolay Amosov achieved, but about his inner world and human values which formed his
personality and the "phenomenon of Amosov ".
What he did in his life, reviolution and war, socialism and capitalism, surgery and cybernetics, life and
death, truth and the universe - this is not a complete list of episodes that we are facing rememvering him.
And behind it all - powerful figure of Nikolay Amosov: his attitude toward himself and his work, in the
family and strangers, his faith and doubt, his principles and morals, its inner core.
We are looking for the secret of the phenomenal achievements Nikolay Amosov, we are looking for his
message to us, the people now living. This what is our film about.
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"THE MOST UNKNOWN PERSON"
26 min
Ukraine, 2005
Demo: https://vimeo.com/75295082
film about a world-wide scientist-microbiologist Volodymyr Khavkin, which was a
student and follower of Paster and, due to his vaccines the world was given the
medicine from a plague. A film took prizes at international film festivals in Israel and
Holland.
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«COLUMBUS QUEST»
48 min / Ukraine, 2010
Demo: http://vimeo.com/28347986
about possibilities of man to survive in an ocean without a meal and water. Command of
ekstremals of three persons by the name of EQUITES swam across the Atlantic ocean on the
way of the first expedition of Columbus..
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a documentary film “THE DIFFICULT ONE”
20 min / Ukraine / 2007
Ukr/Rus + English subtitles
For the last 10 years the number of orphan-children in Ukraine increased by 60%
and mounts to 150 thousand. Orphanges are overcrowded. The state mechanism of
the defence of children rights does not work. The private children centers are not
regulated by legislation. The day-time orphanage “Sun City” in Donetsk has existed
outlaw during five years. After school-leaving every fifth inmate of the Orphanage
becomes a hobo, every second one becomes a criminal, and every seventh one tries to
commit suicide.
Munich film festival of film schools screening
Document Human Rights Film Festival (Glasgow, Scotland)
Flahertiana Film Feastival (Perm, Russia)
Docudays Human Rights Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Kratkimetar Belgrade Film festival (Belgrade,Serbia)
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«STATE OF SHSHSH, OR TO MONGOLIA ON TWO WHEELS»
34 min
Ukraine, 2010
Demo: http://vimeo.com/31669046
In August — September, 2010 Oleksij Korovin from Kharkov left in a single trip on a motorcycle
to Mongolia which took 20 100 km, 46 days of travelling, through 5 countries, 2780 litres of petrol...
«ASIAN ADVENTURE»
52 min
Ukraine, 2011
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZe32mGVH9Q
Solitary travel through Pakistan, India and Sri-Lanka. On bicycle through Pakistan Start -- October, 31st, 2011
Finish -- November, 8th, 2011 On bike through India and Sri-Lanka Start -- December 5th, 2011 Finish --
January 5th, 2012 Total length of the route -- 6000 km.
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«GUBIN»
91 min, HD / Ukraine, 2013
Director Ihor Chayka
Language of original version: Ukranian, Russian + English subtitles
demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOhLxXsJic
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In its original home on the shores of the Yuzhnyi Bug River, just next to the master live bees, wasps,
bumblebees; every here and there, there are hanging baskets filled with rounded by time and river stones.
Besides, in Gubin's home as well as in his self, the water Mill (Mlyn) is living; one is drawn on the wall, the
other is so close - just a little further up the river. A unique architectural structure erected by count
Pototski at the end of 19 century.
Last century, at the end of the rakish 90's a monstrous fire burnt out the Mill from the inside, leaving the
walls untouched. Gubin firmly believes that after the fire the spirit of Mlyn moved to him, and that's
already more than 10 years as he defends its right to existence. He did not allow the villagers to separate
Mlyn into building materials, and suggested to bring it back to life by dividing it in shares.The countrymen
were bored with that work and they sold their shares to Gubin. And after a while, haven't thought it over,
they sold it once more to visiting "businessmen" who decided to build a 4-star hotel in this place...
Since that time, for local authorities Gubin is like a splinter in the intimate place: all the plans of new
financial flows "development" splited over him as water splits over the stubborn river boulder...
One part of the villagers find him an odd fish who bilds cozy "huts"of got from the river snags and coastal
cane on the banks of the Bug river and hangs up his marvellous "sails" all over the trees which give the
feeling of free flying above the ground!
The other part frankly "dislike" Gubin, because he is not like all the others! Different ...
He defends the old Mlyn, gathers stones, teaches people to fly and creates festivals. He lives by the river,
writes a book and calls himself Alkhemist...
Painters, musicians, yogis stay at his place and home people avoid him.
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«ANOTHER CHORNOBYL»
56 min, HD / Ukraine, 2011
Ukr/Rus + English subtitles
demo: http://youtu.be/DdV3GxaXZo8
For the majority of people on this Earth Chernobyl is a spot on the globe where a new epoch of existence
has begun: the time of taming of huge man-made or technogenic accidents as it is sometimes referred to.
Our story is about another Chernobyl and Chernobyl area as well as about its people who call themselves
Chernobylans, for whom the land of their forefathers is not an abstract notion of 'thousands of square
kilometers of territory' or a 'zone of alienation' as it has been called during the last quarter of a century.
To them it is their 'sweet home' which had to be abandoned so quickly and unexpectedly, and forever...
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a documentary film «UKRAINE-USA: 20 YAERS OF PARTNERSHIP»
44 min, Ukraine, 2011
English
demo: http://youtu.be/AZI5rPQ1o6I
The documentary "Ukraine - USA: 20 years of partnership" tells about the complex
processes of the formation of the young state, about the formation of very important
diplomatic relations with the United States. 1991 is a decisive moment in the life of the two
countries - Ukraine, which began the process of its formation, and the Soviet Union, which
was now in the final stage of decay. A crucial role in these processes was played by the
United States. Not only the fate of a young country but of the entire empire depended on
Bush's visit to Moscow. Ukraine was a key Soviet republic, whose loss was the equivalent of
death, which is why Gorbachev tried to calm the rebellious moods in it. However, the
disintegration of the Soviet Union reached a point of no return. Which was later
announced; Ukraine declares its independence. The world did not know how to respond to
such grand events.
The film "Ukraine - USA: 20 years of partnership" reveals the complex processes, on which
Ukraine depended its survival as a state that , in those difficult times, aimed to obtain U.S.
support. One of the main problems in the documentary «Ukraine - USA: 20 years of
partnership" demonstrates the importance of a proper foreign policy vector and the great
influence of the people on the future of their country.
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THE CULTURAL HERITAGE: FILMS OF OLEKSANDR DOVGENKO
RENEWD BY digital Archiving & Restoration technologies
1. Love’s Berry [Yagodka lyubvi] aka Love’s Berries
The first director work of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, 1926, 10 min
Screenplay by: Oleksandr Dovzhenko Director: Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Cinematography by: Danylo Demutskyi, Yosyp Rona
Production designer: Ivan Suvorov
Cast: Maryan Krushelnitskiy, Margarita Chardynina-Barskaya, Dmytro Kapka, Ivan Zamychkovskiy, Vladimir
Lisovskiy, A. Belov, Leonid Chembarskiy, Igor Zemgano, K. Zapadnaya, Mykola Nademskyi.
A mistress of the barber Zhan Kovbasiuk abandons an infant to him. Zhan decides to get rid of a “natural”
child, he puts it stealthily in a toyshop. The mess with a “doll” is cleared up soon. A shocked clerk palms the
baby off on one of his clients, who in his turn puts a live doll to the Zhan’s barbershop. Having no idea how to
pacify the little one, the “dad” feeds it with milk through a barber spray, and then again, the “love affair berry”
comes to be on a boulevard bench… Once Kovbasiuk receives a notice of appointment from a court
investigator, he rushes in search of the child. Meanwhile his mistress obtains “justice” in the People’s Court.
Nevertheless,
Zhan without any particular enthusiasm takes a decision to become a model father. After he and his mistress
contracted a marriage, it turns out that Zhan in fact was not the father of the child. But it’s too late…
2. Zvenyhora [Zvenyhora] aka Zvenigora / 1927, 70 min
Screenplay by: Mayk Yogansen, Yu. Yurtik (Yuriy Tyutyunnik)
Director: Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Cinematography by: Boris Zavelev Production designer: Vasyl Krychevskyi
Cast: Mykola Nademskyi, Semen Svashenko, Les Podorozhnyi, M. Charov, Georgiy Astafyev, I. Selyuk, Leonid
Barbe, M. Parshina, O. Simonov, and others.
According to some folk legends, Zvenyhora, hill that towers up amidst the steppe, hides invaluable treasures of
Scythians. The whole sequence of events – the Varangians, the struggle against the Polish gentry, the
Haydamachyna, the First World War, the Revolution – is combined by a strand ploy in a figure of the
ingenious, yet crafty, Ukrainian old man, the personification of the Ukrainian peasantry. As if his entire life is
devoted to hunting for the Zvenyhora treasures, and all his endeavours are futile. The old man cherishes hopes
that his grandson Tymish, the Red Army man, will discover the “treasures”. Another grandson of the old man,
Pavlo, who is a Petliura troop, after the defeat of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, escapes to the West. He
returns with the mission to blow up railway. He wants to exploit the old man to fulfil his task. A train frightens
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the old man. The railway disaster does not happen. The workers, who travel by the train, take the old man
with them and the train speeds away as the unceasing revolution motion advances the bright future.
3. The Diplomatic Pouch [Sumka dipkuryera] aka Sumka Dipkuryera, 1927, 70 min
Screenplay by: Moisei Zats, Borys Sharanskyi (adapted by Oleksandr Dovzhenko)
Cinematography by: Mykola Kozlovskyi Production designer: Georgiy Bayzengerts
Cast: Mattea Buyukli, Anton Klymenko, G. Zelendzhev-Shipov, I. Penzo, Borys Zahorskyi, Sergii Minin, G.
Skoretskiy,
The film is based on a story of the tragic death of Teodor Nette, the Soviet diplomatic courier. The Soviet
Embassy in England sends two couriers with a diplomatic pouch to Leningrad (nowadays St. Petersburg).
White, the Political police inspector, with a squad attacks the Soviet couriers at night. One of them perishes
in an unequal fight, another one, wounded, falls out of a train. A trackwalker, Englishman, gets the bag and
passes it to his son in Portsmouth, from where a steamer to Leningrad departs. The police find out that there is
the Soviet diplomatic documentation hidden on the English steamer, but they fails to intercept it.
The film survived without the first and second parts.
4. Arsenal (“The January revolt of 1918 in Kyiv”) / 1929, 70 min
[Arsenal] aka January Uprising in Kyiv in 1918
Screenplay by: Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Cinematography by: Danylo Demutskyi
Production design by: Yosyp Shpinel, Volodymyr Miuller
Original music by: Igor Belza
Cast: Semen Svashenko, Mykola Kuchynskyi, Dmytro
Erdman, Sergii Petrov, Georgiy Kharkov, Amvrosii Buchma, F. Merlatti, Mykola Nademskyi, Borys Zahorskyi,
Tetiana Vagner, Petro Masokha, and others.
The First World War keeps going. A heart-broken torpid woman in the middle of a house – she has nothing to
feed her hungry children with. A legless cripple, a former soldier, beats a horse despairingly. “You’ve missed
your aim, Ivan!” – says to him the thin, as a bag of bones, horse. A battlefield, a gas attack. Waves of “joyous”
gas(sarin) float over the field – it covers the dead soldiers’ faces with dreadful masks of eternal “laughter”.
Armies fall apart, soldiers desert entrenchments, disperse to their homes. The February Revolution of 1917
begins. The Central Rada (Council) is established in Kyiv. Tymish, a former worker of the “Arsenal” factory,
which comes to be a stronghold of revolutionary events, turns back form the battle- front. The Bolshevik party
urges workers to revolt against the Central Rada Government, but forces are unequal. Tymish is rounded up by
haydamaks. He has run out of ammunition for his machine- gun. Tymish rises over it to his complete height.
Haydamaks shoot him point-blank. But their bullets are useless against the hero… His worker body is
immortal.
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5. Earth [Zemlya] aka Zemlya aka Soil/ 1930, 60 min
Cinematography by: Danylo Demutskyi Production designer: Vasyl Krychevskyi Original music by: Levko
Revutskyi
Cast: Stepan Shkurat, Semen Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova, Ivan Franko, Petro Masokha,
Volodymyr Mykhailov, P. Petrik, Pavlo Umanets, Ye. Bondina, Luka Lyashenko, Mykola Nademskyi, Vasyl
Krasenko.
A poetical film-story about the events that describe the collectivization in Ukraine at the end of 1920’s, the
formation of the first collective farm communes (kolkhozes), the class struggle in the rural area.
The Ukrainian land is rich with its bearing… Mighty meditative oxen tow a plough cutting through the soil and
exposing a fat loam – the chernozem. Earth, it is like the very life… There is an ash-grey-headed old man, dying
in the garden among apple-trees and pear-trees. He was born on this earth, worked on it and will rest in it. His
place on this earth takes his smiling grandson Vasyl, a handsome lad. Here he rides on a “steel horse”,
ploughing down limits of the lots, with which the land is covered – “mine…”, “mine…”, “mine”… The land
belongs to everyone – this is the slogan, with which the next generation is ushered into the life. However, those,
who stick to their “lots”, do not share their concept. Horse in the open country gives a start in the moment of
the shot, Vasyl falls down to the ground.
The entire village comes to his funeral. Blooming trees bend over the face of the murdered Young Communist
Leaguer. The murderer Khoma, the son of the village rich man, gives his desperate confessions. He tries to find
shelter in the earth, but it does not want to host him...
On the Brussels World Exhibition (Belgium, 1958) the film was named one of the 12 best films of all times and
nations based on the international survey of critics.
6. Ivan [Ivan] / 1932, 60 min
Cinematography by: Danylo Demutskyi, Yuriy Yekelchik, Mykhailo Hlider
Production designer: Yuriy Khomaza
Original music by: Yuliy Meytus, Borys Liatoshynskyi Cast: Petro Masokha, Stepan Shagaida, K. Bondarevskiy,
Stepan Shkurat, Dmytro Holubynskyi, Oleksandr Zapolskyi, Terentii Yura, Feodosiya Barvinskaya, Liudmyla
Yaroshenko, Oleksandr Khvylia, Mykhailo Haivoronskyi, Maksym Hornatko, Mykola Nademskyi, Lavrentii
Masokha, and others.
The film poem about the construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station, about the life of a country
lad, who along with other youths comes to build one of the greatest constructions of the Socialist industrial
building.
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The majestic panorama of the “Dniprohes” is open for the eye of the country boy. The roar of concrete mixers,
steam hammers, shrill train hooters suppresses the voice of an individual. A bucket broke loose and killed a
Young Communist Leaguer. His mother runs across the dam and it seems to her that terrible machines pursue
her. Nonetheless, strong, sinewy young bodies move undisturbed finding the rhythm in their labour. The lines
of the “Dniprohes” become more visible. Even long unshaven slovenly man, a shirker, a loafer, cannot spoil the
solemn appearance of the construction. He fidgets near the “black cash-box”; a wrathful voice of the radio
pursues him. In the meantime, Ivan, a last night’s country boy, mauls with a hammer in the centre of the
building. He realizes that strength alone is not enough. He has to learn. In the last scene of the film, Ivan is
admitted into the Communist Party. The doors of an institute of higher education fly open before him.
The Venice International Film Festival, 1934 – The Cup for the best program presented by a state (the USSR).
7. Air City [Aerograd] aka Frontier (USA) / 1935, 80 min
Cinematography by: Eduard Tisse, Mikhail Gindin, Nikolay Smirnov
Production design by: Aleksey Utkin, Viktor Panteleyev Original music by: Dmitriy Kabalevskiy
Cast: Stepan Shagaida, Sergey Stolyarov, Yelena Melnikova, Stepan Shkurat, V. Novikov, Viktor Uralskiy, Boris
Dobronravov, Yelena Maksimova, G. Tsoy, L. Kan, I. Kim, M. Tabunasov, and others.
The onset of the 1930’s. The USSR experiences the height of the Socialist building. It is planned to lay the
foundation of a defence outpost in the Far East to protect eastern boundaries of the state.
Stepan Hlushak, a hunter and a former guerrilla warrior, accidentally spots in taiga the prints of the
Manchukuo saboteurs. Hlushak kills one of them, a Japanese Samurai. The other one manages to conceal
himself. Looking for him, Hlushak comes to his friend, Khudyakov, also a hunter and a former guerrilla. He
assures Hlushak that there are no saboteurs in his dwelling. Meanwhile, in a far village a plot is being hatched.
The rich man Shabanov attempts to incite Old Believers to revolt against the Soviet authorities, against the
Bolsheviks, which came to build in the midst of Taiga a new city – Aerograd. Shabanov promises Old Believers
that there will be a support from Japanese. A guerrilla troop, Van-Lin, a friend of Hlushak, reveals Khudyakov’s
treachery – he finds in Khudyakov’s dwelling a Japanese saboteur. Khudyakov kills Van-Lin. A rebellion breaks
out in the Old Believer’s village. Hlushak summons former guerrillas. The conspiracy is prevented. Hlushak
personally executes his ex-friend, now a traitor, Khudyakov… Planes soar over the Taiga, they carry builders of
the coming Air City
8. Shchors [Shchors] aka Shors (USA) / 1939, 120 min
Co-director: Yuliya Solntseva
Cinematography by: Yuriy Yekelchik Production designer: Morits Umanskiy
Original music by: Dmitriy Kabalevskiy
Cast: Yevgeniy Samoylov, Ivan Skuratov, Luka Lyashenko, Fedir Ischenko, Nina Nikitina, R. Chalysh, Hanna
Borysohlibska, Oleksandr Khvylia, Sergey Komarov, Dmytro Miliutenko, Georgiy Polezhayev, Mykola
Komissarov, Yu. Bantysh, D. Barvinskiy, Dmytro Kostenko, Petro Masokha, P. Radetskiy, P. Tatarenko, O.
Glazunov, Hans Klering, Valentin Dukler, Dmytro Kadnikov, O. Levchenko, Oleksii Zahorskyi, and others.
Year 1919. Germans retreated from Ukraine. The Directoire, presided by Symon Petliura, governs in Kyiv.
Meanwhile, Mykola Schors’s division head to Kyiv. According to Schors’s plan, the regiment of Bozhenko
liberates Vinnytsia, Zhmerynka and other Ukrainian cities concurrently. The Red troops, which defend
Berdychiv, yield to the pressure of Petliura’s forces and retreat. Relief comes with Schors, who serves as an
example to the retreating and encourages them. A bloody skirmish begins; the town changes hands many
times. When the town is finally liberated, Schors talkes to his soldiers during the battle break. They dream
about the future, about what their posterity will say of them. A short relaxation comes to an end, and another
fight is waiting. From north of Bakhmach general Dragomirov heads to Kyiv. Deadly wounded Bozhenko
passes away. Schors personally runs the parade of young commanders – students of the Young Commanders
School, who are professional, qualified personnel for the Soviet Army.
The film is awarded to the Stalin (State) Prize of the First Grade (1941).
9. Liberation [Osvobozhdeniye] aka Osvobozhdeniye / 1940, 80 min
Screenplay by: Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Directors: Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva
Cinematography by: Yuriy Yekelchik, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Mykola Bykov, Yuriy Tamarskiy
Production designer: Morits Umanskiy
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Original music by: Borys Liatoshynskyi
Feature documentary film.
About dramatic times in the life of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, the reunification of Eastern Ukraine
and Western Ukraine into a single state. The film contains the following scenes: the public meeting in a Hutsul
village, where Oleksandr Dovzhenko makes a speech, the beginning of the People’s Assembly of Western
Ukraine in Lviv on the 26th of October, 1939, the session of the People’s Assembly of Western Ukraine in
Bilostok, passing of the Act of the Reunification of Western Ukraine with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist
Republic on the Third Session of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Fifth
Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
10. Battle for our Soviet Ukraine [Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu] aka Battle for Soviet Russia
(UK) aka Ukraine in Flames (USA) / 1943, 70 min
Art director and author of narration: Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Directors: Yuliya Solntseva, Yakiv Avdeienko
Cinematography by: V. Afanasyev, Kostyantyn Bohdan, Mykola Bykov, Boris Vakar, Mykhailo Hlider, Solomon
Golbrikh, Izrail Goldshteyn, I. Zaporozhskiy, M. Kapkin, Kasatkin, Isaak Katsman, V. Komarov, Yuliy Kun,
Mogilevskiy, Valentin Orlyankin, B. Rogachevskiy, S. Semenov, Viktor Smorodin, I. Sof’in, S. Sheynin, V.
Shtatland, Sergey Urusevskiy, V. Frolenko, and others
Narrator: Leonid Khmara
Original music by: Dmytro Klebanov, Andrii Shtoharenko
Sound editors: V. Kotov, Ye. Kashkevich
Conductor: D. Blok
The film depicts concrete events of the Great Patriotic War during 1941-1943: difficult battles for the
liberation of Kharkiv, Artemivsk, Kramatorsk, Donetsk, Mariupol, guerrilla camp of S.A. Kovpak. Episodes of
joint operations of Ukrainian and Czechoslovak units are included in the film. Soviet and German (captured)
newsreels are also used. The film was dubbed into 26 languages; it was widely presented in European
countries and America, the USA and Canada in particular.
11. Victory in Ukraine and the Expulsion of the German Invaders from the Boundaries of the Ukrainian
Soviet Territory [Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoy Ukraine i izgnaniye nemetskikh zakhvatchikov za
predely ukrainskikh sovetskikh zemel] aka Victory on the Right Bank Ukraine (UK) / 1944, min
Screenplay by: Yuliya Solntseva, A. Kuznetsov
Author of narration: Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Narrator: Leonid Khmara
Directors: Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva
Cinematography by: Kostiantyn Bohdan, Boris Vakar, N. Vikhirev, Volodymyr Voitenko, Izrail Goldshteyn, V.
Dobronitskiy, D. Ibragimov, P. Kasatkin, Isaak Katsman, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, A. Krichevskiy, Yuliy Kun, K.
Kutub- Zade, A. Laptiy, G. Mogilevskiy, Valentin Orlyankin, M. Otsep, Pavel Rusanov, A. Semin, A. Sof’in,
Mykola Topchii, D. Sholomovich, and others (more than forty cameramen shot combat operations)
Original music by: G. Popov
Sound editors: V. Kotov, Ye. Kashkevich
Conductor: N. Anosov
The historical newsreel, which covers the events of 1943-1944: forcing of the Dnipro near Pereiasliv-
Khmelnytskyi, Kremenchuk and Vyshhorod, the liberation of Kyiv, Lviv, arrival of the Soviet Army in the
Carpathians; depicts self- sacrificing toil of the Soviet people in the rear.
12. Michurin [Michurin] aka Life in Bloom (USA), 1948, 100 min
Cinematography by: Leonid Kosmatov, Yuliy Kun Production design by: Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennadiy
Myasnikov
Original music by: Dmitriy Shostakovich
Cast: Grigoriy Belov, Vladimir Solovyev, A. Vasilyeva, Nikolay Shamin, Fedor Grigoryev, Mikhail Zharov,
Konstantin Nasonov, Aleksey Zhiltsov, Ivan Nazarov, Viktor Khokhryakov, Dmitriy Dubov, Gennadiy Pechnikov,
Sergey Tsenin, Yuriy Lyubimov, V. Isayev, Ivan Kashirin, and others.
About the life and work of the prominent Soviet biologist, gardener, Ivan Michurin.
Rumours about unusual experiments of the Russian gardener Michurin can be heard far outside Russia.
Americans come to a little town, where Michurin dwells. They tempt the scientist to go to America, promise
him all wonders. However, Michurin is devoted to Russia, though tsarist government does not treat him
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appropriately. Overcoming impediments of officials, Michurin keeps researching and experimenting with
garden plants and dreams about the times, when people in full extent will be able to use the results of his work.
The Revolution of 1917 brings such times. Michurin’s garden in a town of Kozlov becomes one of the centres of
the Soviet biology.
The film is awarded to the Stalin (State) Prize of the Second Grade (1949).
On the International Gothvald Film Festival (Czechoslovakia, 1949) the film was awarded to the Labour Prize.
13. Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The Contemplations After Life [Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Rozdumy pislia
zhyttia] / 1992, 10 min
Screenplay by: Bohdan Diatsenko, Hennadii Halchenko
Author of narration: Valentyn Artamonov
Director: Mykhailo Donets
Cinematography by: Yevhen Tsypl’onkov
About the life tragedy of Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About his childhood, the Revolution, the war, the Central
Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Politburo meeting in January, 1944, when Stalin
lambasted Dovzhenko’s film story “Ukraine in Flames”… About the events, when by the will of “the high and
mighty” Dovzhenko was detached from Ukraine until he died. The film tracks the discernment phase of
Dovzhenko the Human, Dovzhenko the Artist, when the creative creed “beauty is larger than truth” changes
into “truth above all” – the Truth of Life, the Truth of History.
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