Directing

Mykola Vinhranovskyi

Born November 7, 1936 · Pervomaisk, Odesa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine]

Died May 26, 2004 · aged 67

Writer, actor, film director, and translator. He graduated from the All-Union Institute of Cinematography (1960) in Moscow and has worked at the Kyiv Artistic Film Studio, where he played the lead role in Yuliia Solntseva's film The Tale of Flaming Years (1961). He wrote film scripts and directed the feature films The Squadron Turns Westward (1967), The Shore of Hope (1967), Duma about Brytanka (1…

Known For

Duma about Brytanka

Duma about Brytanka · 1970

Duma about Brytanka

MovieDramaHistory

The film tells about the brutal class struggle during the civil war in the villages of southern Ukraine.

Silent Shores

Silent Shores · 1973

MovieCrimeMystery

The fishery supervision employee is killed. During the investigation the public law enforcement official has looked out on the trace of the illegal grouping which has serious reasons for the commission of more considerable crimes than the illegal animals killings.

The Shore of Hope

The Shore of Hope · 1967

The Shore of Hope

The film is set on an island in the Pacific where a hydrogen bomb is being tested. A group of local fishermen die from radiation sickness. The inventor of the bomb, American scientist Thomas Sherwood, also receives a large dose of radiation and is now terminally ill. Once he professed the theory of "redemption through his own suffering," but now, in the face of death, he realized that such atonement does not benefit anyone.

Klymko

Village boy Klimko, accompanying his father to the front, stays with his stepmother. In the occupied village, the hero cannot see his friends. Having survived hunger, injuries and loneliness, the boy enters a vocational school - nine kilometers from the village - and works with new friends for the front...

Daughter of Strution

Daughter of Strution · 1965

Daughter of Strution

The German intelligence officer Sturmer, under the guise of captain Voron, commits sabotage one after another with the aim of reaching the commander of the partisan detachment of Stration. Galinka, the daughter of Stration, who fell in love with Voron, invades their duel.

Vasyl

Two lovers cannot be together—the girl’s authoritarian father refuses to approve the marriage. When the young man kills him, a third figure—the couple’s childhood best friend—rushes to take revenge. He is faced with a difficult choice.

Krasts

MovieDocumentary

Uldis Brauns' diploma film at VGIK

Ukrainian Rhapsody

Ukrainian Rhapsody · 1961

Ukrainian Rhapsody

MovieDramaRomance

World War II separates lovers Oksana and Anton. The young man is taken prisoner by the Germans, while his beloved abandons her studies at the conservatory to become a frontline nurse. Despite all the hardships, their paths cross again.

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Duma about Brytanka

Duma about Brytanka · 1970

Duma about Brytanka

MovieDramaHistory

The film tells about the brutal class struggle during the civil war in the villages of southern Ukraine.

Director

Silent Shores

Silent Shores · 1973

MovieCrimeMystery

The fishery supervision employee is killed. During the investigation the public law enforcement official has looked out on the trace of the illegal grouping which has serious reasons for the commission of more considerable crimes than the illegal animals killings.

Director

The Shore of Hope

The Shore of Hope · 1967

The Shore of Hope

The film is set on an island in the Pacific where a hydrogen bomb is being tested. A group of local fishermen die from radiation sickness. The inventor of the bomb, American scientist Thomas Sherwood, also receives a large dose of radiation and is now terminally ill. Once he professed the theory of "redemption through his own suffering," but now, in the face of death, he realized that such atonement does not benefit anyone.

Director

Klymko

Village boy Klimko, accompanying his father to the front, stays with his stepmother. In the occupied village, the hero cannot see his friends. Having survived hunger, injuries and loneliness, the boy enters a vocational school - nine kilometers from the village - and works with new friends for the front...

Director

Daughter of Strution

Daughter of Strution · 1965

Daughter of Strution

The German intelligence officer Sturmer, under the guise of captain Voron, commits sabotage one after another with the aim of reaching the commander of the partisan detachment of Stration. Galinka, the daughter of Stration, who fell in love with Voron, invades their duel.

Assistant Director

Vasyl

Two lovers cannot be together—the girl’s authoritarian father refuses to approve the marriage. When the young man kills him, a third figure—the couple’s childhood best friend—rushes to take revenge. He is faced with a difficult choice.

Director

Krasts

MovieDocumentary

Uldis Brauns' diploma film at VGIK

Writer

Ukrainian Rhapsody

Ukrainian Rhapsody · 1961

Ukrainian Rhapsody

MovieDramaRomance

World War II separates lovers Oksana and Anton. The young man is taken prisoner by the Germans, while his beloved abandons her studies at the conservatory to become a frontline nurse. Despite all the hardships, their paths cross again.

sergeant - plays the piano

The Squadron Turns Westward

The Squadron Turns Westward · 1966

The Squadron Turns Westward

MovieDramaHistory

The action takes place in Odesa in 1918-1919. At the request of General Denikin, a French squadron arrives in Odesa to restore order in the city. Odesa Bolsheviks are trying to convince the sailors to leave the city. At the center of the story is the heroic fate of Frenchwoman Jeanne-Marie Lyabourb (1877-1919), shot by French interventionists.

Director

Dovzhenko. Diary. 1941-1945

Dovzhenko. Diary. 1941-1945 · 1992

Dovzhenko. Diary. 1941-1945

MovieDocumentaryHistory

An outstanding poet, student of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Vinhranovsky reads excerpts from his teacher's diary, comments on it - thereby emphasizing the tragic fate of the great artist. The film uses a chronicle of the war and post-war years.

Director

Chyhyryn is the capital of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Chyhyryn is the capital of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky · 1993

Chyhyryn is the capital of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky

MovieDocumentaryHistory

Director

Baturyn is the capital of Hetman Ivan Mazepa

Baturyn is the capital of Hetman Ivan Mazepa · 1993

Baturyn is the capital of Hetman Ivan Mazepa

MovieDocumentaryHistory

The film is dedicated to the events of the early eighteenth century, the time of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

Director

Ukrainian Night of the 33rd

Ukrainian Night of the 33rd · 1994

Ukrainian Night of the 33rd

MovieDocumentaryTV Movie

Ukrainian Night of the 33rd is series of documentaries about the Holodomor, which includes the “Fear”, “Horror”, “Guillotine”, “Case of Hrushevsky.” Each part is full of horror, and the viewer is constantly in tension.

(voice)

Halych is the capital of Prince Danylo Halytsky

Halych is the capital of Prince Danylo Halytsky · 1993

Halych is the capital of Prince Danylo Halytsky

MovieDocumentaryHistory

The film is dedicated to the historical period of the XI-XIII centuries, the times of Kyivan Rus and the Galician principality.

Director

Khortytsia is the capital of Zaporozhian Sich

Khortytsia is the capital of Zaporozhian Sich · 1992

Khortytsia is the capital of Zaporozhian Sich

MovieHistoryDocumentary

Director

Chronicle of Flaming Years

Chronicle of Flaming Years · 1961

Chronicle of Flaming Years

Once again, director Yulia Solnsteva directs a movie that her late husband Alexandre Dovchenko scripted but did not live long enough to shoot. In this wartime drama, the emphasis is on the heroics of both the civilians and the soldiers during times of severe stress in World War II. At the core of the action is one man in particular, whose sacrifices and heroics speak for a much larger group.

Hetman Sahaidachny

Hetman Sahaidachny · 1999

Hetman Sahaidachny

MovieDocumentaryHistory

In 1997, Vinhranovsky resumed his project to create a “cinematic encyclopaedia of Ukraine” by securing funding from a private investor. He began filming the documentary “Hetman Sagaidachny,” facing concerns about the investor’s commitment and the lack of paintings from Petro Sagaidachny’s era. Overcoming these challenges, he found relevant paintings in Kyiv museums, confiscated in the 1930s. Filming, which was slow, concluded in April 1999.

Director

Seromanets

Seromanets · 1989

MovieDramaFamily

Old wolf Seromanets is the only surviving member of a pack hunted by humans. A young boy struggles to save the animal life.

Writer