Ivan Franko

The Rising Hawk

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains against Mongolian invaders.

For the Family Hearth

The story of the happy couple Aneli and Anton Angarovych. They love each other, love their children and are ready for anything for the well-being of their family hearth. For this reason, Anton gave five years of his life to the service in Bosnia. Anelya solved this problem in her own way: in order to save the dignity and honor of her family, which she tarnished by participating in criminal cases, she committed suicide.

Stolen Happiness

Anna and Michailo grow up together, attracted to each other since their earliest days. When Anna's father dies, her brothers force her into marriage with the mean farmer Mikola. After years of absence, Michailo comes home, to get her back.

Stolen Happiness

The heroes of this film - Anna, Mikhailo and Mykola - are trying to find their happiness in difficult life circumstances. In a love triangle, passion is adjacent to betrayal, suffering is adjacent to sin, and forgiveness is adjacent to death. The heroes find themselves in a situation where happiness is simply impossible - it has been stolen from everyone.

Zakhar Berkut

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 the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.

If the stones could talk...

The film tells the story of a bitter, hard life of laborers in Ukraine during the second half of the XIX century.

Stolen Happiness

Based on a play by Ivan Franko. Anna married Mykola, but does not love him. She likes young Michael. Against the background of the picturesque Carpathian mountains in the nineteenth century unfolds the eternal drama of love and jealousy.