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Vladimir Bystryakov

Born December 13, 1946 · Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine] (age 79)

Vladimir Yuryevich Bystryakov is a Soviet and Ukrainian pro-Russian composer, pianist, showman. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1987).

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A student must do his homework, writing a story about his family. As the boy was watching a program about animals, he inadvertently added fantastic facts, such as the number of a million people, and described special feature of relatives using phrases that inform about the different birds and animals. The writing, of course, turned out to be funny and ridiculous.

Treasure Island · 1988

Treasure Island

★ 7.71988

MovieAnimationAdventure

Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure in this Soviet Ukrainian animated adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.

Love and Death of the Ordinary Potato · 1990

Love and Death of the Ordinary Potato

★ 6.51990

MovieAnimationMusic

The life story of a potato, which was born in one of the fields and then was taken to the city along with her other counterparts. Once in the apartment, she oversees the life and atmosphere of the new place. The potatoes meets a knife and falls in love with him at first sight...

Treasure Island: Part II - Captain Flint's Treasure · 1987

Treasure Island: Part II - Captain Flint's Treasure

★ 7.71987

MovieAnimationAdventure

A Soviet Ukrainian made violent farcical yet quite faithful adaptation of the famous Robert Louis Stevenson's book that combines animated sequences with live action parts. This film covers the second half of the book

A man kills a toy designer and steals his latest product. The product, a mini-army complete with weapons, then wages war on the killer. The first Ukrainian screen adaptation of Stephen King's story.

Treasure Island: Part I – Captain Flint's Map · 1987

Treasure Island: Part I – Captain Flint's Map

★ 7.81987

MovieAnimationAdventure

Alice Through the Looking Glass · 1982

Alice Through the Looking Glass

★ 7.31982

MovieAnimationFamily

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.

The Muddle-Headed Wombat · 1991

The Muddle-Headed Wombat

★ 5.81991

MovieAnimation

Wombat is very cute and charming, but, unfortunately, he can not find a friend, even though he wants it wholeheartedly. One day he gets in a tense situation by chance, which helps him to get a long-awaited friend a mischievous mouse. The two of them will have exciting adventures.

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Treasure Island · 1988

Treasure Island

★ 7.71988

MovieAnimationAdventure

Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure in this Soviet Ukrainian animated adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.

Original Music Composer

Love and Death of the Ordinary Potato · 1990

Love and Death of the Ordinary Potato

★ 6.51990

MovieAnimationMusic

Original Music Composer

Treasure Island: Part II - Captain Flint's Treasure · 1987

Treasure Island: Part II - Captain Flint's Treasure

★ 7.71987

MovieAnimationAdventure

Original Music Composer

A man kills a toy designer and steals his latest product. The product, a mini-army complete with weapons, then wages war on the killer. The first Ukrainian screen adaptation of Stephen King's story.

Original Music Composer

Treasure Island: Part I – Captain Flint's Map · 1987

Treasure Island: Part I – Captain Flint's Map

★ 7.81987

MovieAnimationAdventure

Original Music Composer

Alice Through the Looking Glass · 1982

Alice Through the Looking Glass

★ 7.31982

MovieAnimationFamily

The second adventure of Alice who steps through the looking glass and finds herself in a wonderful mirror land populated by chess figures and weird creatures.

Original Music Composer

The Muddle-Headed Wombat · 1991

The Muddle-Headed Wombat

★ 5.81991

MovieAnimation

Original Music Composer

The collection of miniatures. The first is called "Glasses" and it deals with how a man with poor eyesight once ordered the glasses at his wife’s insistance. His sight came back to him, and with it the ability to see what dowdy and ugly his wife is and how uncomfortable their house is. In such a situation, he chose not to wear glasses. Thumbnails "Othello" and "Big and small" are also about the relationship between men and women.

Original Music Composer

About the adventures of a little girl Mariyka in a magical forest.

Original Music Composer

A Terrible Vengeance · 1987

A Terrible Vengeance

★ 6.81987

MovieAnimationFantasy

About friendship, betrayal and hidden resentments that have befallen the protagonists during their stay in the royal army. For instance, one employee, Ivan, was bestowed a very high reward for bravery. But not everyone had it to their liking. Soon Petro, his sworn brother, took all the money from Ivan having contributed to Ivan’s falling into the precipice. Petro has now become rich, but this is only the beginning of his story. Based on Gogol's short story "Terrible Vengeance".

Original Music Composer

Animation for adults, consisting of three short stories: "The Most Beautiful" - about the female beauty of the past and the present, "Sweet Life" - about the contradiction between reality and the dreams of women, "The Deck" - about which place occupies a man in a woman's life.

Original Music Composer

How Petryk Piatochkin Counted Little Elephants · 1984

How Petryk Piatochkin Counted Little Elephants

★ 6.41984

MovieAnimation

Petryk Pyatochkin goes to kindergarten and loves to play around. One day he counted elephants so that he could fall asleep with the other children during quiet time. And when he succeeded, Petryk got to Africa in an amazing kindergarten, where he had to take care of baby elephants, who did not miss the opportunity to have fun.

Original Music Composer

Incident Improvisation · 1991

Incident Improvisation

★ 8.01991

MovieComedyTV Movie

The enterprising head physician rents out places in the resort hospital to quite healthy vacationers. Fearing inspections, he keeps his “imaginary patients” under the strictest regime, prohibiting them from even going to the bathroom. So, a young teacher and a pensioner meet, who were coming here to bask in the sun and swim in the sea...

Sound

The Wedding Is Accused · 1986

The Wedding Is Accused

★ 5.21986

MovieDrama

The wedding turns into a crime scene. The wedding is like the apotheosis of meaninglessness, a metaphor for society. The story of the generation of the eighties with a tragic ending. The film uses the true facts of the criminal case.

Original Music Composer

Death macaroni, or Professor Buggensberg's mistake · 1992

Death macaroni, or Professor Buggensberg's mistake

1992

MovieAnimationAdventure

A surreal fairy tale for adult viewers, mixing animated and live performances. Wasn't finished due to budget problems.

Music

Mistress Hen has a lot of worries every day. She needs to feed the chickens, take them to kindergarten, clean, iron, and prepare dinner. But how to cook something without salt? Hen goes to the neighbor Goose to borrow salt, but she asks to do her a favour. A simple request triggers a whole cascade of favours that must be arranged to get...salt. The cartoon satirically mirrors the rampant barter and blat in the poor Soviet society of the late "stagnation" era.

Original Music Composer

The Sun and the Little Snow Men · 1985

The Sun and the Little Snow Men

★ 8.51985

MovieAnimation

This story took place one day in winter, when snowmen in the woods were afraid that the heat radiated by the sun would bring them irreparable harm. These kind creatures just did not want to melt and decided to find the sun, urged him not to warm the earth. They did not even know how it looks like when they started their path, and then they realized all living things need it...

Original Music Composer

A Mystery Known to All · 1981

A Mystery Known to All

★ 6.01981

MovieMusicFamily

Children from in a summer camp decided to invite a group of famous actors to visit them.

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Masha is a young, energetic girl, who has decided to make an adventurous journey across mountain Crimea. On the road she meets a funny man in a bowler hat and vest, who is trying to start his old car with a sledgehammer. Masha decided to become a fellow traveler of the mysterious mustachioed character.

Music

Evenings on a farm near Dikanka · 1983

Evenings on a farm near Dikanka

★ 7.31983

MovieTV Movie

A fantasy film on the theme of the early works of Nikolai Gogol, tightly interwoven with his personality and biography.

Original Music Composer

1918. A group of Russian aviators who had been training in France return to Russia and join the White Army. However, two pilots soon switch sides and fight in the Red Army's first aviation unit.

Music

Hunting Season · 1981

Hunting Season

1981

MovieAnimation

The animation is about a dog, which has her inherent hunting instincts awaken, even though she lives in an ordinary apartment high-rise building. One day, her dreams come true and she plays the role of a hunter. Here it turns out that it was not what she had imagined. Now there is only the joy of returning to the family home.

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New Year's Adventure of Movie · 1993

New Year's Adventure of Movie

★ 5.01993

MovieAnimationAdventure

The first cartoon about the adventures of a dog named Movie. On New Year's Eve, Movie saves Father Frost's gifts from hooligan cats and receives an invitation to go to the holiday as the Snow Maiden.

Original Music Composer

The Ultimate Reason for Kings · 1986

The Ultimate Reason for Kings

★ 8.01986

SeriesWar & PoliticsMystery

The plot centers on a large-scale conspiracy by a group of US military personnel, led by General James Scott, against the current President Jordan Lyman. Further events show that the President, who sent his closest aides and friends to investigate, easily and almost indifferently accepts the news of their deaths, because he is only interested in his own person.

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