Based on the novel of the same name by A. Bakhvalov. The plot is based on a story-interview about the testing of the new strategic missile carrier Tu-22K and Tu-22M2/M3 (for well-known reasons, in close-ups, instead of them, the film shot the then less secret Tu-134 UBL - a combat training...
The gifted designer-designer German Baklanov does not want to be a pawn in the hands of his boss, but wants independent, creative work. He forces the management of the Design Bureau to announce a competition for the development of a new tractor model, and he heads one of the creative groups.
At the site where Mikhail Sveshnev was working, the roof collapsed, crushing one of the miners. At the risk of his life, Mikhail saved his comrade, but the foreman lied to Sveshnev and blamed him for the accident. The commission identified the true culprits of the accident, but Mikhail, feeling...
1941. The soldier, a young poet takes the wounded commander out of the battlefield. The commander dies and the soldier is wounded. He was a long way to test before he gets to the guerrilla group. Title in English is "Love Awaits Those Who Return," according to Joshua First in his book UKRAINIAN...
Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The stories are interconnected by documentary shots and numerous interviews taken on the streets from passers-by who are asked the same question:...
In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The...
Parajanov's collage of all the footage that remained from his film "Kyiv Frescoes," which was halted by the authorities who demanded that all the negatives be destroyed.
Trofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.
Immediately after the war, veteran Vasile Karuntu came to the machine-building plant where Ion worked, who soon became a foreman. They both fell in love with Maria, but she married Vasile. With Maria, he created a family, raised four children, three of whom are adopted orphans. And now, many years...
This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during...
USSR of 70th years of the twentieth century. Maxim Zozulya is graduating from school and trying to find his place in life. Everything was pretty evenly before Natalia has won Maxim’s heart. Her character and appearance has attracted protagonist. However, to achieve reciprocity, Maxim will have to...
A fisheries inspector is killed while on night duty in a small fishing village on the shores of the Azov Sea. The murder draws the attention of the authorities and local residents to the problems of protecting and restoring the endangered nature of the once-rich region.
