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Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object of his desire. After getting away with his crime, he finds employment in a fortress, where he continues his experiments with ether to manage pain and manipulate human behaviour. Despite his evilness, it is not too late for his soul to be saved from eternal damnation…

For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia". Andrii finds himself in a real hell of punitive psychiatry and faces a difficult choice - to cooperate with the KGB and return to his family, or to reveal the truth about dissidents tortured in such psychiatric hospitals. The script was based on the memoirs of Soviet dissidents who faced the brutality of a totalitarian system that used so-called "punitive psychiatry" as a weapon against free thought.

Two young Russian historians are going to Ukraine to take part in the reconstruction of the Lvov-Sandomierz operation in July 1944. On sight they fall into conflict with Ukrainian nationalists, and some magical twist of fate, move into the middle of real warfare from more than 60 years. Miraculously avoiding death at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists, caught in the middle of fighting between the Red Army and the Nazis.

A 40-year-old loser named Isidoro at the request of his brother drives from Italy to mountainous Carpathian village in Ukraine with a coffin of a diseased Ukrainian worker, who died at a construction site in Italy.

This is a story about a man, who is transforming into beast because of being driven to despair. This is a try to investigate what a person can stand, which tortures and indignity can overcome, how many people he can kill in the sake of saving one.

1918 Ukraine. Patriotic students, protagonists of the film, get ready to defend Kyiv and fight heroically in the Battle of Kruty. On this historical background reveals the story of the Savytskyi family - the general of Ukraine's counterintelligence and his two sons, Andrii and Oleksa.

A businessman, spoiled by the good life, learns that he suffers from a serious heart condition. He can only survive by finding a donor immediately. In the hospital, he accidentally meets a young man whose grief and job loss have taken away all his will to live. He is suicidal, so he is the perfect donor, and they must find a way to help him leave this world...

Based on the novel of the same name by Yuri Smolich about the struggle of young people to establish Soviet power in Ukraine.

During an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power, Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.

The love story of journalist and actor. They are connected by a great mutual feeling, but he has a wife and a son. Realizing that she is his only true love, he still does not dare to leave his family.

A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film Studion in 1988. Based on the short story "Gogol-gimnazist" by Vasili Avenarius.

A young woman gets involved in a typhoon of temptation, pressure, buried secrets and dangerous individuals that prowl the nocturnal streets and has to use her internal strength to create a new balance in her shattered life and start living to the fullest once again.

The love story in the big city, where a man can in an instant to miss with his dream and he has to spend a long way to find and return this dream in his life.

1920. Russian Civil War. Operation of GubCheka (Soviet police) to destroy one of the bands in Ukraine.

The events take place in the XIX century, in the Carpathian mountains. It is the screen adaptation of the novel by Hnat Khotkevych based on the legend of brave leaders who fought against the Austrian Habsburgs and the Polish magnates for the happiness and freedom of its people. And also it is a romantic story about a fatal overwhelming love.

Film tells the story of one of the most difficult and tragic moments of the liberation war of Ukrainian people against the rule of Poland (1648 - 1657 years) - Battle of Zbarazh.

A musical fairy tale for children about the adventures of blacksmith Mykhailo. On the way to the Zaporizhzhya Sich, the young blacksmith freed his beloved's brother. In the happy ending of the fairy tale, the main characters Mikhail and Lesya have a magnificent wedding.

The film tells the story of the difficult and tragic fate of a Prykarpattia family over several generations. The events take place in the difficult 30s and 40s. Zhmeniak's father tries to gather more land in his possession by all means. But not everyone understands that he will divide all that land between his children when it comes time to die anyway, and they are simply jealous of his possessions. Meanwhile, the children have their own dramas and tragedies, because it's one thing to love someone, and another thing to know what the father thinks about it, and who he sees as wives for his sons. And then there are changes of government, and then there is the war...

It is evening, children are gathered around the fire, and the old miller begins to tell them a fairy tale. In his tale, Mykola, a bursak, goes to Mr. Adam to teach his daughter Khrystyna to read and write. But on the way to the manor, Mykola learns that the village has been invaded by evil spirits, werewolves, and air-breathers, and that Mr. Adam himself is in captivity. Mykola and Khrystyna decide to free the prisoners and the land from evil spirits, but they will have to go through many trials.

Pensioner Halyna has been having memory problems due to Alzheimer's disease for the last few years. That is why her son Alexander shows excessive care and forbids his mother to leave the house. She has long since come to terms with home isolation, but once a year she just needs to leave the house. And this day is a meeting of classmates, where Halyna hopes to meet her school love. Her son tries to prevent this, because every time there are some problems with the old woman. The ingenious pensioner goes to various tricks to get to school in the evening in any way. She expects to meet there with her school love Gennady, who ignored all the previous 60 meetings of classmates. But Halyna is sure that this time the love, endured for decades, will still visit the annual event.

The end of the 19th century. Grigory Petrovich Tsybukin, a prominent rural bourgeois, is famous for his wealth and stinginess. His whole life revolves around increasing his capital, but money does not bring happiness to his family, only problems.

Ivan, a young Ukrainian peasant, robs the Moscow Tsar of precious jewels. He also accidentally steals a magical heirloom, now in the hands of the Sich leader, Koshovy, in his Ukrainian Cossack Fortress.

On the New Year's Eve, in a small cozy hotel in the Carpathians, fate, with the help of its owner Ivan, brings together people with completely different life paths. Defender Valera comes back from the battlefront to convince his wife not to divorce. Volunteer Tania, despite an unsuccessful attempt to raise funds for drones, hurries to the customs office. Blogger Liza wants to return to her easy and carefree pre-war life. And MP Petrovych dreams of escaping abroad with a suitcase of money. Each of them has their own desires and views, but this New Year they will find themselves together to understand what they really want from the future.

Honest, courageous, and caring, Paul Gordiychak knows what needs to be done to stop the spread of theft. He is an instructor for the Ukrainian Sheriff program, but he had no intention of staying long in the homeland of his ancestors. However, things turned out quite differently than expected, and when confronted with evil in the form of a killer, he chooses the path of a hero. He must rid this sacred land of all kinds of thieves and make the region safe. Especially since he has his loyal partner Stepan by his side. Will Paul succeed in defeating crime?

The story of experienced and cynical cop Pavel Safronov, who is in a coma, and whose soul has been transferred into a stray dog. The only one who can hear the policeman's voice is his young partner, Lieutenant Slava Kurochka, who has just started his career in the police force. Together with the dog, he will investigate crimes, repeatedly finding himself in comical situations.