Movies: Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Jean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of ...

Dovzhenko and Solntseva's documentary about the Bukovina region....

A wartime documentary directed by Alexander Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva, depicting the final campaigns that drove Nazi forces from Ukraine in 1944–45. Combining frontline footage, liberated cityscapes, and scenes of returning civilians, the film c...

While watching Dovzhenko's Earth a young man imagines himself a painter in a Ukrainian village in the 1930s. All is pastoral idyll until the authorities arrive with Soviet wrath for tradition and religion....

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....

Based on O. Dovzhenko's short story "Mother" about the tragic and majestic fate of a Ukrainian mother....

Oleksandr Dovzhenko shot his first films while living in Odesa. Contemporary renowned filmmakers comment on this period of Dovzhenko's creative work. Reconstructions of moments from the great master's creative explorations immerse the viewer in the a...

We hear readings from Dovzhenko's diary and hear how the great suffering of the Ukrainian people caused him to move away from beauty for it's own sake to the search for truth, expressed in his two harrowing wartime documentaries. Stalin's 1944 bannin...

This film, marking the 130th anniversary of Oleksandr Dovzhenko's birth, reveals the artist's controversial path—from his first attempts at cinema to the creation of masterpieces that became symbols of Ukrainian poetic cinema. The authors show his ab...

An inspiring portrait of Dovzhenko, one of the greatest film directors, known as Homer of Cinema. The film features Sergei Trimbach, Oleksandr Muratov, Vyacheslav Bihun, Raisa Prokopenko, and Peter Simms....

How the film was made, how the events described in the film actually happened, about Nikolai Ostrovsky and much more....

The film is about Ivan Honchar, an ardent collector of Ukrainian antiquities, who turned his Kyiv apartment into a unique museum....

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....