Nikolay Topchiy

Lileya

The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.

Lileya

The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.

Shtepsel Arranges The Marriage Of Tarapunka

Funny adventures of two frontline friends who succeeded on the stage and found happiness in their private lives. During the war Tarapunka met Halya. He told his only friend Shtepsel about his love for a sweet girl with a rare surname Sumatokha. But he could not get along with Halya because of his timidity. The war ended, and Halya arrived in Kyiv. Tarapunka meets her again, but now he is hindered by accident. Then Shtepsel undertakes to arrange the marriage of his friend...

Fighters

Fighter pilots Sergei and Nikolai test new planes together and try to beat each other in everything. Their rivalry began back in school, when both were passionate about the pretty classmate Varey. A tragic accident led Sergei to complete blindness. Varya, who has long loved him, has a difficult decision: to become a wife of a disabled person ...

Prometey

The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill fame. In the troops an ordinary peasant gets acquainted with an ideological revolutionary and becomes inspired with the feeling of inequity to the existing social structure. And when the time comes to return to the native village, he will make the sir pays by his blood for all wrong-doings against the peasants. A film based on works and biography of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861).

The Czarina Commands

The film attempts to display 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.

Night Raids

A peasant visits the DneproGES construction. Agitprop film about industrialisation and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction.

Perekop

This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.