Movies: Ukrainian Newsreel And Documentary Film Studio

Documentary film about the outstanding Ukrainian humorist Ostap Vyshnya....

The first film made following the nuclear meltdown accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, reactor 4, near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, on the 26 April 1986, focuses on the immediate aftermath of the disaster and the cleanup effort....

Documentary about the famous Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhoriy Skovoroda, which was banned by Soviet censorship. The film only reached the screens 15 years later, during Perestroika era....

Short documentary dedicated to the life of the "young atomohrad" Pripiat, directly after operations began at the Chornobyl station in December 1977. This work is a triumphant overview of the results of the journey from the beginning of the power stat...

In the Volyn region, in a monastery of the XVI century, an old people’s home is located. However, mental patients and former criminals also live there....

A city symphony, whose protagonist is autumn Kyiv in the middle of the 1960s. The colours of the city are captured on the go, highlighted with jazz accents by composer Volodymyr Huba....

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Reflection on the way the Soviet production system turns workers themselves into commodities....

A touching cinematic portrait of a woman who survived the 1933 Holodomor and whose life comprised more dramatic moments than a screenwriter could possibly describe. This is one of the first films raising the issue of the Great Famine....

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"In the Former Nest of the Obscurantism" (1938) is a Soviet propaganda film that ridicules the Christian faith. Filmed at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which had been desecrated by the communists....