Boris Knizhenko

The musical MUR. Ty [Romantyka] movie is Ukraine’s original historical musical, offering a fresh perspective on the writers of the past century — not as distant figures from textbooks, but as real, living people. The story unfolds in the legendary Slovo House in Kharkiv, where, in the early 20th century, the Soviet regime brutally persecuted and executed hundreds of Ukrainian cultural elites.

A married couple decides to divorce, but things don't quite go the way they planned.

For several months now, in a residential area of the city, residents of a house have been waking up at 5am to the sound of a rooster crowing on Viktor and Anna's balcony. At breakfast, the wife gives her husband an ultimatum: he must remove the rooster and finish the renovations by her anniversary.

The first Soviet sexologist is sent to the gulag and is haunted by stories of fellow inmates. They provide unforgettable vignettes of Soviet sexual brutality, from the utopian ideals of the 1920s, to gay life in the 1930s, the rape of women by those in power, and the use of sexpionage to entrap enemies of the State. A visually compelling exploration of how totalitarianism ultimately destroys all forms of human intimacy. Part 1 of the trilogy "Sex in the Soviet Union."