Viktor Stepanenko

Batallions Ask for Fire

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

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...

Weeds

David Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the changes caused by the revolutionary events. But he cannot see no improvement. The village is ruled by the kulaks and David's childhood friend Kornii Matiukha helps them.

Lushka

The taxi driver Lushka falls in love and, for the sake of that love, is ready to change her life just to be close to the man she loves. It turns out that her chosen one is a criminal. Yet she does not rush to lose hope. Now she understands that, for the sake of love, she must change another person – and she's going for it.

Tales about Ivan

The action takes place in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the First World War. The plot - twists and turns of life's journey of the traveler, adventurer, traveling actor and philosopher Ivan Kalita.

The Birthday Present

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.

The Way to Sich

At the beginning of the XVII century, events take place preceding the liberation struggle led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. A young boy Pavlo Pokhylenko leaves his native Kaniv to join the Zaporizhian Sich (camp and cossack army) to fight for freedom and the Orthodox faith.

Exile

Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.

Batallions Ask for Fire

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

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...

Weeds

David Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the changes caused by the revolutionary events. But he cannot see no improvement. The village is ruled by the kulaks and David's childhood friend Kornii Matiukha helps them.

Lushka

The taxi driver Lushka falls in love and, for the sake of that love, is ready to change her life just to be close to the man she loves. It turns out that her chosen one is a criminal. Yet she does not rush to lose hope. Now she understands that, for the sake of love, she must change another person – and she's going for it.

Tales about Ivan

The action takes place in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the First World War. The plot - twists and turns of life's journey of the traveler, adventurer, traveling actor and philosopher Ivan Kalita.

The Birthday Present

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.

The Way to Sich

At the beginning of the XVII century, events take place preceding the liberation struggle led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. A young boy Pavlo Pokhylenko leaves his native Kaniv to join the Zaporizhian Sich (camp and cossack army) to fight for freedom and the Orthodox faith.

Exile

Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II.

Flower on the Stone

Set in a new mining town in the Donets Coal Basin, it centres on a clash between the young miners, the political establishment, and a religious cult lead by a devious Pentecostal evangelist infiltrated into the community who tries to make the workers fall under his influence.

The Kaidash Family

Ukraine, the village of Semyhory. Two sons get married in the Kaidash family - Karp and Lavrin. But there is no peace in their home. Constant quarrels in the family between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law force the sons to share their father's property. Native people become enemies when it comes to the distribution of property.

Here We Live

The film depicts the challenging daily life of rural workers.

To the Attention of Citizens and Organizations

Eight-year-old Kirill has big problems: he struggles at school, his parents are boring, and he has nowhere to put his lame stray dog. In short, he is at odds with the whole world. Then he meets journalist Vadim, who is easy to get along with and interesting. Vadim's interest is genuine — after all, Kirill is named after his deceased friend.

Anetta

A new cook, an elderly woman, arrived on the fishing vessel. The sailors, who had expected to see a young woman, were disappointed, but her care for the crew and her kind smile eventually won everyone over. The guys started calling her "mommy." One day, Anetta saw a "seasoned sailor" mocking the young first mate. Anetta was outraged and left the ship. Her actions made the crew see themselves in a different light.

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle

Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.

Gelli and Nok

Gelli and Nok accidentally find themselves in the same boat and for several days they sail together along the river to the sea. He is a convict fugitive, she is young, outspoken and pure. Gelli managed to bring the disappointed Nock back to life, gave him love and happiness

Passion

Based on the story of Marko Vovchok "Pavlо Chornokryl". Pavlo Chornokryl, passionate about young beauty Varka, kills his wife Anna for the opportunity to be with her mistress.

The Witch

In the Ukrainian village of Konotop, the chief Centurion wants to marry a beautiful girl and asks for the help of a young witch.

Famine-33

The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.

A Melodrama with Attempted Murder

Journalist Tamara Malysheva is deeply unhappy in her personal life with her alcoholic husband, Andrey. The editorial office sends Tamara to a small Ukrainian village to investigate the reasons why a soldier who had just come out of the army stabbed his mother-in-law with an axe and the 11 years of strict prison sentence he received for it. There she meets Yuriy, a man who has been "waiting for her all her life" and with whom she falls in love without looking back. Further events develop.

Rain in a Foreign City

Based on the novel of the same name by Daniil Granin. Engineer Chizhegov often travels on business to a small town, where he meets a woman who reciprocates his feelings. The protagonist faces a difficult problem: he is married, and his family lives in Leningrad. Unable to make a final decision and afraid of losing his beloved, he commits a despicable act. His remorse comes too late—Chizhegov loses the woman who was truly dear to him forever.

Each Evening After Work

School of working youth. A new teacher of Russian language and literature comes here. Soon, Yelena Nikolayevna realizes that it is impossible to make concessions to adult students who are tired after work, but you need to interest them, awaken in them a desire to learn.

Far Away, Across the River

Ukraine, 1920s. A gang of enemies of the Soviet government is rampaging in the village. Returning home, wounded 15-year-old Red Army soldier Fedya Panko decides to neutralize the enemy, who, as it turns out, operates not only on the battlefield.

It's Not Always Summer in Crimea

The film is dedicated to Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, the younger brother of V.I. Lenin, a professional revolutionary, doctor and creator of the first Soviet sanatoriums and rest homes in the Crimea.

Tachanka from the South

Born of Revolution

About the struggle between criminal investigators and the criminal world. Based on real events and documents, the film recreates the atmosphere of 1920s Russia, which was swept by a wave of violence... At the heart of the story is the fate and career of a young man who, together with his comrades, is about to make history in Soviet criminal investigation...

Ostriv lyubovi

The series consists of ten films based on love and erotic works of Ukrainian literature from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. The films explore love as a multidimensional phenomenon. This is a kind of retrospective slice of the history of society, culture, and art. There are changes in the attitude towards a woman, mother, lover.

Waves of the Black Sea

The Odesa boys, Petya Bachey and Gavrik Chernoivanenko, are brave and resourceful, finding themselves at the centre of early 20th-century events leading to the October Revolution. They are joined by adult characters like sailor Rodion Zhukov, Petya’s father Vasily, Madame Storozhenko, and Gavrik’s grandfather. As they grow, they experience the revolution, civil war, and become underground fighters during WWII in occupied Odesa.

War in the Western Direction

A military epic based on Ivan Stadnyuk's novel of the same name about the tragic events of the first months of the WWII.

Altunin Makes a Decision

A film novel about a production manager who used to be a worker at a machine-building plant's forge.

The Days of the Turbins

Winter of 1918-1919. The power in the city passes from the hetman to the Directorate of Ukraine, then from Petliura to the Bolsheviks. Turbins and their acquaintances have to make their choice. Colonel Alexei Turbin and his brother Nicholas remain loyal to the White Movement and bravely defend it, without worrying about their lives. Elena's (née Turbin) husband, Vladimir Talberg flees shamefully from the city with the retreating German troops. In this troubled time, the family and close friends gather and celebrate the New Year. A strange and slightly ridiculous person comes to visit them, a distant relative of the Turbins: Larion Surzhansky

Batallions Ask for Fire

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.