Movies: Ukrainian Newsreel And Documentary Film Studio

The July Storms is a dilogy about the first mass protests in Soviet Ukraine in a long time. The parts of the dilogy, Strike and Outburst, are dedicated to two waves of miners' strikes in Donetsk, in 1989 and 1990, which were unprecedented in scale. S...

The first film made following the nuclear meltdown accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, reactor 4, near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, on the 26 April 1986, focuses on the immediate aftermath of the disaster and the cleanup effort....

In November 1988, director Anatoly Syrykh met with Sergei Parajanov in Tbilisi to make a documentary about him. However, Parajanov was clearly not in the mood to talk about his art. As a compromise, Syrykh offers to talk about the artist and time. Th...

Documentary about the famous Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhoriy Skovoroda, which was banned by Soviet censorship. The film only reached the screens 15 years later, during Perestroika era....

Reflection on the way the Soviet production system turns workers themselves into commodities....

In the Volyn region, in a monastery of the XVI century, an old people’s home is located. However, mental patients and former criminals also live there....

A touching cinematic portrait of a woman who survived the 1933 Holodomor and whose life comprised more dramatic moments than a screenwriter could possibly describe. This is one of the first films raising the issue of the Great Famine....

A city symphony, whose protagonist is autumn Kyiv in the middle of the 1960s. The colours of the city are captured on the go, highlighted with jazz accents by composer Volodymyr Huba....

A protest on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. Writer Dmytro Pavlychko and Hero of the Soviet Union L. Telyatnikov speak. Among those present is the head of the Kyiv City Executive Committee V. Zgursky....

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Short documentary dedicated to the life of the "young atomohrad" Pripiat, directly after operations began at the Chornobyl station in December 1977. This work is a triumphant overview of the results of the journey from the beginning of the power stat...

Documentary about the destruction of the Wall of Memory, the monumental avant-garde reliefs at Kyiv crematorium that artists Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko had been working on since 1968, after local authorities concreted them over in 1982....

A propaganda film about V. Hrabovenko who fought in Afghanistan. The hero of the film talks to passengers on the train while in his native village. The film shows a military hospital in Dushanbe (Tajik SSR), where the wounded V. Grabovenko was treate...

A documentary film about the construction of the first atomic power station in Soviet Ukraine in Chornobyl. In the film, schoolchildren, public servants and inhabitants of villages of the Chornobyl region try to answer the question "What is the atom?...

A documentary about the enthusiastic photographer Igor Kostin, who worked at the Chornobyl disaster site....

The film is about the villagers of the Chornobyl district of Kyiv region who return to their homes after being evacuated from the Chornobyl exclusion zone....

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In 1983, the documentary film "Soldier's Widows" was released on the screens of Ukraine, created by director Volodymyr Artemenko, whose father died at the front, and nine aunts remained widows. Based on real events, the picture about one small villag...

A documentary about Hryhoriy Havrylenko. After watching the film, Yuriy Illienko told the film's cameraman Volodymyr Pika: "Man, this is brilliant!"....

Documentary about the problems of lonely old age of pensioners of Chornobayiv District, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine; pensioners give interviews during household work....