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- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsMattea BuyukliA. KlymenkoHeorhii Zelondzhev-ShypovThe true murder of the Soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, which narrates the difficulties in returning the diplomatic bag of the murdered agent to Russia, by sea and before it is found by the British secret police.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsNikolai NademskySemyon SvashenkoAleksandr PodorozhnyyAn old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi BuchmaA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya SolntsevaIn the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsK. BondarevskyDmitri GolubinskyElena GolkiA young farmer and his lazy father try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShagaidaSergey StolyarovStepan ShkuratA Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoYuliya SolntsevaStarsEvgeniy SamoylovIvan SkuratovLuka LyashenkoBiography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kyiv.
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsMaryan KrushelnitskyMargarita BarskayaDmitriy KapkaJean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of the cumbersome 'article'. And, take his word for it, all the ways are good.
- DirectorMikhail KaufmanIn Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, almost unknown today. Pictures of wakening city, its resurging life resonate with lyrical views of reviving nature. Kaufman's attentive camera dwells deliberately on smiling faces of children, lyrically depicting a declaration of love to Kyiv. In In Spring, Kaufman used the method of «hidden camera» for the first time.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsTengiz ArchvadzeVladimir ArtmanAlexandr KotchekovA short from Sergei Parajanov, edited from this banned film's screen tests, noted by Mikhail Vartanov as the origin of the groundbreaking cinematic language materialized in the masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates (1969).
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsNatalya Uzhviy
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsGrigori KarpovLyudmila SosyuraYuriy SatarovWatch the Soviet youth living in the country as they labour, exercize, sing, dance, have fun and fall in love during which they may well be the best years of their lives.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsOlga Reus-PetrenkoEduard KoshmanYuriy GulyayevUkrainian singer, who has just won an international contest, recollects her life journey from childhood, through WWII, to the present day.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsInna BurduchenkoLyudmila CherepanovaBoris DmokhovskySet in a mining town in the Donets Basin, it centers on a clash between the political establishment and a religious cult which infiltrates the community.
- DirectorBoris IvchenkoStarsIvan MikolaychukLidiya BelozyorovaFyodor StrigunA Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.
- DirectorSergei ParajanovStarsIvan MikolaychukLarisa KadochnikovaTatyana BestayevaA timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsRolan BykovIosif RyklinViktor MikhaylovIn the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsViktor MikhaylovVera MayorovaVadim LobanovIn a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum buried under the sea which can only be accessed during low tide.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsViktor MikhaylovAleksandr IlinValentin GolubenkoParable on the Last Judgement which comes to Russia of our days. Everything appeared not so simply as behind all events a certain ambiguity, some game was read. There was a terrible suspicion that all events are a certain performance, a performance.
- DirectorKonstantin LopushanskiyStarsGregory HladyLeonid MozgovoyAleksey KortnevThe writer is invited to the town of Tashlinsk by the mutants who emerged after an unnatural and constant rain causing the evacuation of the city, and by the children who are studying the unearthly knowledge of mutants.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
- DirectorBoris IvchenkoStarsVsevolod GavrilovGennadi ShkuratovBoris BelovBased on Sci-Fi story by Igor Rosokhovatsky, an artificial brain vanishes from professor's lab causing havoc in the city. It creates an android and appears before the professor, finally taking off on a mission to constellation Gemini.
- DirectorValentin KhovenkoStarsYekaterina PrizhbilyakAleksandr LenkovMikhail DanilovLate 21st century. Archeologists unearthed a company of century-old military robots, but lost them during the transportation. Robots hide on an uninhabited island and later kidnap Alisa Seleznyova, a teenage actress playing Little Red Riding Hood, and Baba-Yaga, a mischievous robot actress playing a witch. Now those two have to stop the robots before much damage has been done.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsBoris KhmelnitskiyLarisa KadochnikovaYefim FridmanPiotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. Luckily, the mischievous demon Bassaruv is loose in the land, and offers him a deal.
- DirectorBoris IvchenkoStarsVladimir NosikElena MelnikovaGrazina BaikstyteHe did not understand how he got to this strange planet. You need to choose, because it turned out that there is also a certain alien, who in the same time appeared on Earth.