A Friend of the Deceased

A Friend of the Deceased 1997

4.60

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.

1997

Khadjibey Fortress

Khadjibey Fortress 2020

8.00

Son Kale Hacibey is a historical action film that tells the story of a battle between the Turkish Ottoman Empire and the Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire on the one hand, and the Russian Empire on the other hand. The forces are fighting to gain control of the Hacibey Castle, an impenetrable fortress located on the Black Sea coast in the heart of Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire. And just when the Russians thought they were winning the battle against Ukrainians and Turks, a mysterious hero - a brave Ukrainian cossack warrior Andriy - arrives in Istambul to deliver a secret message from from Ukrainian Hetmanate Empire's leadership. A message that can forever change the course of this battle.

2020

The Black Council

The Black Council 2001

1

The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.

2001

The Tale Of Money

The Tale Of Money 2018

7.80

A simple-minded Ukrainian worker Levko inherits his uncle's flourishing mill business. The sudden and unexpected fortune consequently reveals Levko's furious crave for money. He starts with laying hands on the tavern of the missing Jew Yankel, who was snatched for cupidity by the devil Khapun. In the blink of an eye Levko becomes a village usurer, he fuddles peasants, he dilutes horilka, he wants and squeezes money from everyone. But the unruly desire to be rich leads to a complete loss of compassion, friends, and love. And the main question is how the hero's ordeals will end - will the real feelings triumph or will the greed prevail.

2018

A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa 2002

5.38

'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.

2002

Аве Марія

Аве Марія 1999

1

Once in the underpass at the Philharmonic, a singer Lyudmila hears a heavenly voice of a beggar-girl singing "Ave Maria" ...

1999

Mamay

Mamay 2003

6.17

Mamay draws on traditional Ukranian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild steppes of Crimea that form an uneasy border between East and West, Europe and Asia, nomad and farmer, the proud Cossack Mamay falls in love with the Tatar beauty Omai. The title, like the storyline, holds a variety of different meanings taken from different cultures. In Turkic languages, it means "no one," but it was also the name of a famous Mongol conqueror, the great grandson of Ghengis-Khan. In Persian legends, mamay literally means "the spirit of the steppes. "

2003

The Price of Head

The Price of Head 1992

6.30

Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police.

1992

Babi Yar

Babi Yar 2002

1

Melodrama about the mass shooting of Ukrainian Jewry at Babi Yar in Kyiv during the Second World War.

2002

Serdtsa Tryokh

Serdtsa Tryokh 1992

7.40

A young millionaire Francis Morgan along with his distant cousin, a cowboy Henry Morgan and Henry's bride Leoncia are searching for the Maya treasures.

1992

Elysian Fields

Elysian Fields 1993

1

On the eve of Christmas in the estate "Elysian Fields" landowner Vladimir gathered his friends - young Proinka with her father and their neighbor Vasili.

1993

Fuchzhou

Fuchzhou 1993

5.20

The action is set at the start of the twentieth century, between a village by the River Dnyepr and the coast of Florida. While the story has ironic, romantic and sometimes mystic angles, the bitter aspects of emigration from the Ukraine to the United States become clearly visible.

1993

Judenkreis: The Eternal Wheel

Judenkreis: The Eternal Wheel 1996

6.50

A completely true story about how a real. live Don Juan comes to a Bukovynsky border town and what happens as a result. In the center 01 the story is the Ukrainian maiden Marichka’s love, which takes place against the background of numerous coup d‘etats during the Second World War.

1996

A Few Love Stories

A Few Love Stories 1994

1.00

A Few Love Stories based on classic novels by Giovanni Boccaccio, Anton Francesco Grazzini and Agnolo Firenzuola.

1994

Zapysky Kyrpatoho Mefistofelia

Zapysky Kyrpatoho Mefistofelia 1994

1

The film takes place in 1905. The main character is a lawyer Mykhalyuk, a social revolutionary, an intellectual. He is the bearer of destructive power aimed at loved ones. Peace of mind leaves everyone who falls under its influence. He tries to compensate for his spirituality with love adventures.

1994

Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky

Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky 2008

5.00

Film tells the story of one of the most difficult and tragic moments of the liberation war of Ukrainian people against the rule of Poland (1648 - 1657 years) - Battle of Zbarazh.

2008

Amulet

Amulet 1991

6.00

A story of two brothers who leave rural Polesiya to seek a better life in Kyiv. One of them quickly finds himself atop the wheel of fortune and the other -- at its bottom. The first brother dies mysteriously and the second brother attempts to take over his work, but in the process begins to lose his humanity, slowly transforming into an undead monster. Based on a story by Vladimir Drozd, "Amulet" is a rare example of horror cinema in the history of Ukrainian film.

1991

Executed Dawns

Executed Dawns 1995

8.00

Bolshevists aim to set their rules on the lands of the Western Ukraine repeatedly occupied by them. UPA – the partisan army – resists their policy. Civil population becomes a hostage of this war "without rules", and above all – relatives of the insurgents. Invaders and their allies cruelly torture Ukrainian people, but the struggle continues. Irritated, "bolshevists" start evicting people to Siberia. UPA tries to prevent this action, but the forces are not equal... Insurgents can only take revenge and punish the executioners.

1995

Tatar Triptych

Tatar Triptych 2004

6.00

Based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's "Crimean Stories": "In the Shackles of Satan", "On the Stone" and "Under the Minarets".

2004