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Mykola Topchii
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Prometey · 1936Prometey
★ 4.71936
MovieHistoryDrama
A young man, Ivan, is forcefully mobilised and sent to fight in the Caucasian War as a soldier of the Russian Empire by his landlord, leaving his wife behind. In the Caucasus, Ivas experiences the fierce local resistance to the Russian military, and returns home to launch an uprising against the Russian government.
Lileya · 1959Lileya
★ 10.01959
MovieMusic
The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.
Night Raids · 1931Night Raids
1931
MovieDrama
A peasant visits the DneproGES construction. Agitprop film about industrialisation and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction.
Perekop · 1930Perekop
★ 6.41930
MovieWar
This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.
Koliivshchyna · 1934Koliivshchyna
★ 9.01934
MovieHistoryDrama
An episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.
The Horse That Cried · 1957The Horse That Cried
★ 4.11957
MovieDrama
An adaptation of a story by a Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that anticipates the Ukrainian "poetic cinema" of the '60s in its focus on star-crossed lovers and its celebration of nature. Set in the 1830s, the film follows two lovers on the run - a girl forced into marriage and her boyfriend, a serf who's being sought by the authorities - as they try to make their way to freedom.
Wind from East · 1940Wind from East
1940
MovieHistoryDrama
A story about a life of a small village in Western Ukraine during 30-ies.
Shtepsel Arranges The Marriage Of Tarapunka · 1958Shtepsel Arranges The Marriage Of Tarapunka
★ 7.01958
MovieComedy
During the war, Tarapunka meets Galya, but their paths diverge. The war ends, Tarapunka finds a job as a traffic cop in Kyiv, and his friend Shtepsel becomes a theater technician. Galya comes there to perform. The paths of the heroes cross again, and the concert introduces new comedians to the world.
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Lileya · 1959Lileya
★ 10.01959
MovieMusic
The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.
Director of Photography
Night Raids · 1931Night Raids
1931
MovieDrama
A peasant visits the DneproGES construction. Agitprop film about industrialisation and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction.
Director of Photography
Wind from East · 1940Wind from East
1940
MovieHistoryDrama
A story about a life of a small village in Western Ukraine during 30-ies.
Director of Photography
Yelena's Bay · 1964Yelena's Bay
1964
MovieDrama
Director of Photography





