Tag Archives: Ukrainian

The Lost Letter
8.3

The Lost Letter

Jan. 01, 1972

The Lost Letter

A Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is ...
My Sweet Home
5.7

My Sweet Home

Sep. 27, 2020

My Sweet Home

After the woman’s death, a quarrel breaks out between her three children over their shared apartment where they spent childhood. In the ...
Olga
7

Olga

Nov. 17, 2021

Olga

2013. Exiled in Switzerland, Olga, a talented and passionate 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, is trying to secure a place in the National Sports ...
The Forgotten
7

The Forgotten

Oct. 09, 2019

The Forgotten

Nina, 30, a Ukrainian language teacher who can’t leave the city of Luhansk, occupied by separatists in Eastern Ukraine, is forced to ...
Babi Yar. Context
8

Babi Yar. Context

Sep. 14, 2022

Babi Yar. Context

On September 29-30, 1941, Sonderkommando 4a of the Einsatzgruppe C, assisted by two battalions of the Police Regiment South and Ukrainian ...
All Things Ablaze
8.2

All Things Ablaze

Oct. 29, 2014

All Things Ablaze

What does the violent heart of revolution feel like? As the anger and hatred glow white hot is there a language its players use to speak to one ...
Trenches
6.5

Trenches

May. 11, 2022

Trenches

In Donbas Ukraine, while precarious truces and ceasefires are negotiated far away by diplomats, Ukrainian soldiers fight against separatists ...
Homeward
7.3

Homeward

Nov. 07, 2019

Homeward

A father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea. Release: ...
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
8.4

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

A documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent ...
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
8.0

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father’s killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts ...
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
7.2

The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

Dec. 25, 1968

The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her ...
The Tribe
7.0

The Tribe

Sep. 11, 2014

The Tribe

Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the ...
Noble tramps
6.7

Noble tramps

Sep. 27, 2018

Noble tramps

A funny story of Lviv batiars (noble tramps) who live with the slogan: “To love Lviv, women and jokes”. To make their life bright, ...
Mamay
6.9

Mamay

Feb. 19, 2003

Mamay

Mamay draws on traditional Ukranian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for ...
Ukrainian Literature: Guide for Assholes
0

Ukrainian Literature: Guide for Assholes

It was a common habit in Soviet schools to draw the intimate organs on all portraits in textbooks. Release: Ukrainian Literature Guide for ...
The Stone Cross
7.4

The Stone Cross

Mar. 07, 1968

The Stone Cross

Kaminnyi khrest (Stone Cross, 1968) told the powerful story of a proud farmer who decided to emigrate to Canada during the 1890s. The film ...
Swan Lake: The Zone
6.7

Swan Lake: The Zone

Sep. 12, 1990

Swan Lake: The Zone

A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker; which is ...
Conscience
7.3

Conscience

Jan. 01, 1968

Conscience

“It is simply a fortunate coincidence that this film survived years of censorship during the Soviet ’60s and was finally released at ...
Nestor Makhno
8.1

Nestor Makhno

Apr. 16, 1996

Nestor Makhno

With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain (“the woman” in “La Jetée”) reconstructs the life of Nestor Makhno from his ...
Song of the Forest
7.7

Song of the Forest

Aug. 07, 1961

Song of the Forest

Among the inhabitants of the fantastic realm lived a beautiful girl Mavka forest. Gentle voice piped woke her from winter sleep swain Lucas, whom ...