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Dovzhenko Film Studios

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Foundation date 1 january 1927

The Dovzhenko Film Studios (Ukrainian: Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка, translit. Natsional'na kinostudiya khudozhnikh filmiv imeni O. Dovzhenka) is a former Soviet film production studios located in Ukraine that were named after the Ukrainian film producer, Alexander Dovzhenko, in 1957. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the studio became a property of the government of Ukraine. Since 2000 the film studios were awarded status national.
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Filmography of Dovzhenko Film Studios (19 films)

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Production

New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Time travel films
Actors Albert Filozov, Alexandre Kaïdanovski, Anastasia Vertinskaïa, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev

A plane crashes in the time of King Arthur. The surviving pilot tries to accommodate to this strange new world.
Flights in Dreams and in Reality, 1h30
Directed by Roman Balaïan
Genres Drama
Actors Oleg Yankovsky, Oleg Menshikov, Lioudmila Gourtchenko, Oleg Tabakov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Aleksandr Adabachyan

À l'approche de ses quarante ans, Sergueï Makarov (Oleg Yankovski), un architecte, éprouve un sentiment constant de malaise et d'insatisfaction ce qui le pousse à adopter un comportement étrange et provocant dans l'espoir que cela aboutisse à des changements dans sa vie, à une révélation, celle de la connaissance de soi. Son entourage est las de ses mensonges, de ses absences, de ses mauvaises plaisanteries au point que son ami Nikolaï en tête-à-tête lui fait savoir qu'il le croit malade.
Pilot Pirx's Inquest, 1h44
Directed by Marek Piestrak
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Space opera, Robot films
Actors Alexandre Kaïdanovski, Vladimir Ivashov

This movie is about a rocket pilot named Pirx who is hired to go on a mission to evaluate some nonlinears (robots) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and his crew, made up of nonlinears and humans, are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn. There is a near disaster and the human crew are almost killed. Upon returning to Earth there is an inquest to determine if Pirx was responsible for the "accident." In the end, it is found that one of the robots caused the malfunction in an attempt to kill the human crewmembers and Pirx is cleared of all charges.
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle, 1h32
Directed by Leonid Bykov
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Gregory Hlady, Leonid Bykov, Yevgeniya Simonova, Aleksei Smirnov, Vano Yantbelidze

The film combines two storylines: the main war drama plot is paralled with vivid artistic performance - the fighter squadron doubles as an amateur musical group during rest time, led by its enthusiastic commander turned conductor.
The White Bird Marked with Black, 1h40
Directed by Youri Illienko
Genres Drama, War
Actors Ivan Mykolaichuk, Bohdan Stupka, Jemma Firsova

The plot takes place between 1937 to 1947, in a little, traditional Hutsul village in Northern Bukovina. The Zvonars are a poor family of musicians, who eke out a living by performing in the local celebrations. Both older brothers, Petro and Orest, are in love with Dana, the priest's beautiful daughter. Their younger brother, Heorhii, is a dreamlike adolescent who is attracted to the village's witch, Vivdya. In 1940, the Romanian authorities cede the territory to the Soviets. Dana falls for a Red Army officer named Ostap and decides to marry him. On the day of their wedding, the Germans and Romanians invade. Ostap has to return to his unit, and Petro leaves the band to join the Red Army. Orest seduces Dana and takes her to the mountains, where he joins the Ukrainian nationalists and subsequently, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. After three years of brutal Romanian occupation, Ostap and Petro return as the Soviets retake the area. They attempt to introduce progress, bringing the villagers a modern tractor. Dana abandons Orest and returns to the village. He ties Ostap to the tractor and sets it aflame; Petro attempts to save him, but both die. When he visits a wedding to dance with Dana, older Heorhii and the villagers finally decide to confront him. He commits suicide when he is cornered. Heorhii studies medicine and becomes a doctor under the new Soviet system.
Bumbarash
Bumbarash (1972)
, 2h15
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Adventure, Musical
Themes Musical films, Political films
Actors Ekaterina Vassilieva, Roman Tkachuk, Valery Zolotoukhine, Aleksandre Filippenko

It is a period of Civil War. Former Imperial Russian Army Pvt Bumbarash was a prisoner of war to Austria, but now is returning to his home village, where all, including his beloved girlfriend, believe he is dead.
Annychka
Annychka (1969)
, 1h29
Genres Drama
Actors Grigore Grigoriu, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Borislav Brondoukov, Konstantin Stepankov

The film dwells of the love story in the midst of the Second World War in 1943. A Hutsul girl Annychka finds herself in the middle of hostilities and gets acquainted with a wounded soldier in the forest. Looking after the soldier, she falls in love with him and turns against her boyfriend in the village, who became a Nazi collaborator. Having told her father of the decision to elope with the soldier she drives her father to despair and eventual insanity. The story ends on a tragic note, when the father kills his daughter.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1h37
Directed by Sergueï Paradjanov
Origin Ukraine
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Ivan Mykolaichuk, Nikolai Grinko, Leonid Yengibarov

In a small Hutsul village in the Carpathian mountains of Ukraine, a young man, Ivan, falls in love with the daughter of the man who killed his father. Though their families share a bitter enmity, Ivan and Marichka have known each other since childhood. In preparation for their marriage, Ivan leaves the village to work and earn money for a household. While he is gone, Marichka accidentally slips into a river and drowns while trying to rescue a lost lamb.
Battle Beyond the Sun, 1h17
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Mikhaïl Karioukov
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera
Actors Ivan Pereverzev, Viktor Dobrovolsky

A Soviet scientific expedition is being prepared as the world's first mission to planet Mars. Their space ship Homeland has been built at a space station, where the expedition awaits the command to start.
Battle Beyond the Sun, 1h4
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Mikhaïl Karioukov
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera
Actors Ivan Pereverzev, Viktor Dobrovolsky

Dans le futur (1997), après une guerre atomique, la Terre est désormais divisée en deux régions, Hemis Nord et Hemis Sud qui sont encore en conflit. Le programme spatial d'Hemis Sud construit une fusée spatiale gràçe à laquelle le premier voyage vers Mars sera entrepris. Le directeur du projet, le Dr Albert Gordon et ses astronautes Paul Clinton et Craig Matthews voyagent jusqu'à la station spatiale où la fusée Mercury a été construite. Un jour avant le lancement (le 7 novembre 1997), une fusée d'Hemis Nord approche la station spatiale. Son équipage, le Capitaine Torrens et le Dr Martin, demandent par radio l'autorisation de débarquer et de réparer leur fusée, ce qui leur est accordé.
The Third Blow, 1h46
Directed by Igor Savtchenko
Genres War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Aleksei Dikij, Mark Bernes, Yuri Lavrov, Sergey Martinson, Alexandre Alov, Ivan Pereverzev

On April 1944, Joseph Stalin orders the Red Army to liberate the Crimea from the German occupiers. The Wehrmacht's local commanders beg Hitler to allow them to retreat from the vulnerable position, but he refuses. After a fierce battle, the Soviet forces destroy the German and Romanian units defending the peninsula and retake Sevastopol.
Tractor Drivers, 1h28
Directed by Ivan Pyriev
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about the labor movement, Musical films, Political films
Actors Marina Ladynina, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Boris Andreyev, Stepan Kayukov, Arkadi Raïkine

Klim Yarko rentre en Ukraine par le train après son service militaire effectué dans une unité blindée. Il avoue aux camarades qui voyagent avec lui ne pas savoir où s'installer, car sans famille il n'est attendu par personne. Il a toutefois une idée. Dans une gazette, il est tombé sur la photo de Mariana Bajan qui dirige une brigade de tractoristes dans un kolkhoze. Il se rend donc à ce kolkhoze à la tombée de la nuit. En chemin, il découvre Mariana qui vient de faire une chute de moto. Il lui porte secours et rentre avec elle au village. Les jeunes gens sympathisent. Klim en tant que bon mécanicien est très bien accueilli par le directeur du kolkhoze Kirill Petrovitch. Toutefois il ne sait pas que, pour repousser les prétendants à son cœur, Mariana avait demandé à l'un des kolkhoziens, un certain Nazar Douma, de se présenter comme son fiancé. Celui-ci prend son rôle très au sérieux et, un matin, essaye de chasser Klim comme les autres. Klim décide de partir, mais à la suite d'un concours de circonstances il devient brigadier de l'unité concurrente de Mariana et chef de Nazar. Nazar n'est pas bien noté par Kirill Petrovitch qui demande à Klim d'améliorer la discipline et le rendement de sa brigade, pour que le fiancé de Mariana devienne un kolkhozien modèle digne de la main de leur meilleure travailleuse. Klim réussit cette mission, mais alors que Kirill Petrovitch évoque dans son bureau la préparation du mariage, il envoie valser les meubles et se met à hurler que ni Nazar ni aucun autre ne se mettra entre lui et sa bien-aimée. Kirill Petrovitch n'en paraît nullement perturbé, il est prêt à donner sa bénédiction à tous les amoureux pourvu qu'ils soient de parfaits tractoristes. Le film se termine par la scène du grand mariage où tout le monde chante des chansons patriotiques et lève son verre vers le portrait du camarade Staline.
Zvenygora
Zvenygora (1928)
, 1h31
Directed by Alexandre Dovjenko
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical

Le film est constitué de douze épisodes, dont chacun raconte l'un des moments clés de l'histoire ukrainienne, depuis l'époque des Varègues à la guerre civile russe et la révolution d'Octobre. Les épisodes sont présentés sous la forme d'un rêve surréaliste et sont unis par la figure du grand-père.

Distribution

The Undefeated, 1h44
Origin Ukraine
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Gregory Hlady

In 1950, long after the world has finished fighting World War II, a fight continues behind the newly drawn Iron Curtain: as the Ukrainians keep fighting both Nazi and Soviet abuses, General Roman Shukhevych (Hryhoriy Hladiy) is forced by brutal circumstances and his own sense of honor and duty to lead this effort as an underground war.