Leonid Osyka

This is a documentary movie about one of the most important figures in the Soviet cinema - Leonid Bykov. No doubt, his biography and career deserve to become be acquainted with. In the Bykov's life a lot of funny stories and serious dramatic events happened. That will be interesting to Leonid’s fans and all those interested in the history of Soviet culture.

This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.

A poetical story about little girl who feels alone even on a beach full of people.

Young revolutionary carried out the attack. She is waiting for a death sentence. Police warden who arrested girl, gives his little son a quite unusual birthday present - takes the boy to the execution.

In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.

Autumn 1944. Wounded scout returns to his home village only to fight with bandits.

Trofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.

Two young people cannot understand each other.

A fisheries inspector is killed while on night duty in a small fishing village on the shores of the Azov Sea. The murder draws the attention of the authorities and local residents to the problems of protecting and restoring the endangered nature of the once-rich region.

On the banks of a marvelous lake lost in the sands of Qazaqstan, there were four strong houses interconnected with striped gardens. Hermits lived there: grandfather Matvey, Baba Verunya, Marusya and Lenya. They lived at odds with nature and were happy. But once aliens visited the Seventh Edge – those were stray Moscow scientists who inadvertently disrupted the peaceful life of the quiet place.

Follows a young soldier and poet at the beginning of World War II in 1941. After being wounded while trying to save his commander, he finds himself behind enemy lines and goes through an arduous journey of survival and trials as he makes his way to a partisan detachment. Throughout his ordeal, the soldier reads poems by wartime poets.

Film about the painter Mikhail Vrubel's years in Kyiv, from a Sergei Parajanov script.

The plant director gathers all the young people in one shop, entrusting them with both work and management. The experiment is unsuccessful, as the youth workshop did not become a collective. Young engineer Sergey, who heads the shop, realizes that only by uniting the youth, he will be able to work fruitfully and fight against marriage and indiscipline. Tsybulkin, who was chosen as a Komsorog, helps to realize the plan conceived by Sergey,. Two schools come to internship. One of them - Lisa Gromova, the daughter of the director of the plant. The shop staff and Sergei undertake to re-educate the maiden spoiled by her mother. Director Gromov himself helps them.

Mariia lost her husband and three children in the war. Having lost all her loved ones, she decided to help other victims of the bloodshed. Adopting three orphans, she moves far away from the places that awaken the pain of her lost family in her heart, and raises her new charges under a peaceful sky...