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- A baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
- Frank Martin is forced to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery.
- A young Jewish American man, with the help of an eccentric local, endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
- In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
- A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
- A story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
- Three dead young women in three different countries - are the murders connected, is there even a serial killer at work? The detectives from the three countries join forces to investigate. What links the three murders?
- A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
- In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Aleksei Golovin, his French wife Marie and their young son. Marie is accused to be a spy, her French passport is torn up and Aleksei accepts to move to Kyiv with his family to save her. They are sent to a room in a communal house and soon Marie befriends the super, an old woman who speaks French. But she is denounced and killed by the government agents. Marie feels guilty and brings her grandson Sasha Vasilyev, who will be evicted, to live in her room with her family. Marie wants to return to her family in France, but Aleksei explains that they are imprisoned in Russia. Marie tries a contact with the leftist French actress Gabrielle Develay to ask for help to leave the USSR. While Marie gets distant from her husband, she gets closer to Sacha, who is a great swimmer and the only chance to Marie contact her family.
- Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
- Captain Muller struggles to survive fighting overwhelming Russian forces. Wounded, he is sent to Normandy as our Americans Lee and Trey are preparing for D-day. Soon score is settled and battle brings our GIs and Germans on the same path.
- Three stories about Shurik - a young student. He fights against criminals, falls in love, confuses apartments, passes exams - he lives after all.
- The passengers on a Mediterranean cruise enjoy their luxuries as a small family struggles with overbearing media attention.
- D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
- Officers of the White Army, holding as POWs in a Red Army's camp, try to understand why they lose Civil War and lost the Russian Empire at all.
- A very good cop tries to catch a very insidious and extremely clever serial car thief. The bitter irony is that the thief is not very clever, absolutely not insidious, and a virtuous person and his friend.
- A boy finds a special jug and releases an ancient genie. The powerful and kind wizard is ready to fulfill all desires, but he doesn't know anything about the reality of the 20th century.
- A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
- A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- During the Prohibition, Chicago mob send a hitman after a traitor. The only problem is that his traces lead to Odessa, and no one hitman can overcome the hardcore Soviet bureaucracy.
- A young girl falls in love with an experienced soldier.
- In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out.
- Tracing the life of Mikhailovich Eisenstein, including the period in which he studied under theatre director Meyerhold, his time in Mexico making the abortive "Que Viva Mexico" and the humiliations he suffered upon his return to Russia.
- Anne-Laure Bonnel, a young director and mother of a French family, decides to accompany Alexander, a father of Ukrainian family, to the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine in a pro-Russian zone. At the heart of the war, she captures the terrible images of a deadly conflict and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.
- Mishka Yaponchik is not an ordinary raider with Odessa flavor. Only an extraordinary person could become the king of thieves, keep the whole city in fear and at the same time be the people's favorite.
- The film tells about the history of the Holocaust through the stories of its unwitting Witnesses.
- This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film students express their excitement at seeing his film HAPPINESS for the first time, and his contemporaries shed light on his life and work.
- Jewish Luck revolves around Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem's characters), a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero.
- Fortresses will fall. Powers will rise. Your decision will determine their fate. - Will you save your Follower or slay your Nemesis?
- How to catch and re-educate the dictator in 24 hours. A provincial hotel turns into the epicenter of a secret operation, but magic and crazy love become a serious obstacle to the country's path to democracy.
- After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.
- A romantic story unfolding in a beautiful village by the sea. The protagonists are 14-year-old Fedor and 18-year-old Nyurka. Fedor has long been interested in the girl, but was too shy to talk to her. He is an ordinary boy who enjoys riding his bike, while Nyurka is almost an actress. Her favorite book is 'Angelique and the King', a novel that defines the way she looks at life. She has often imagined being cast in the title role in a film. When she becomes close friends with Fedor, she assigns him a part from the novel as well. A film showing that love has no age. True feelings can change people and make them grow up. And love is a magical and pure feeling that can awaken courage in hearts.
- This documentary film is showing the hard labor of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the U.S.S.R. economy and turning their country into a world power.
- 1971. Odessa Film Studio, USSR. To conform to Communists Party revisionist propaganda, the KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of a recently completed film, directed by the studio's iconoclastic star director, depicting the events of Ukraine 1920s 'civil war'. The re-editing work is entrusted to a young female editor, a recent graduate of the Moscow Film Institute. However, as her work progress, she comes to understand that despite the risks she must betray the Party to protect the director's vision, and safe-guard the truth about her country under Soviet Occupation.
- A classic Russian story filmed at least half a dozen times including by Mel Brooks is updated for a portrait of society and politics in the now independent country of Ukraine in 2004.
- The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.
- A captivating and true case study of espionage webbed around one of the finest operations pulled by India's Research and Analysis wing against Pakistan's top secret nuclear plant at Kahuta.
- Post-revolutionary Odessa. A schoolboy who dreams of a career as Sherlock Holmes finds himself in that bewitching nightmare that is commonly called the crucible of revolution.
- The invincible "Kid" is a fan of karate, full of bright plans for the future. However, involuntary complicity in the robbery, and only by a miracle instead of prison, he enters the army. From there comes a cruel beast, a fighter without a trace of pity, even for friends. Now his life - racket and underground fighting without rules. He is the best everywhere, but in the final battle, the Kid must "lie down" - the mafia boss nicknamed Maitre put a lot of money on his opponent. Baby wins .
- In the winter of 2014, mass protests rock the Ukrainian capital. At the end of February the violence escalates. Embittered street battles between demonstrators and police forces cost over 100 lives on both sides. President Yanukovych is overthrown. Radical Ukrainian nationalists seize the power in Kiev. The overthrow triggers major protests in the east and south of Ukraine. The Russian minority does not recognize the Ukrainian nationalist government. Odessa becomes an important center of civil resistance. Tens of thousands of people protest week after week against the illegitimate regime in Kiev. A decision is about to be made in the spring. On May 2nd, 2014 several hundreds of radical nationalists storm the protest camp. The government opponents flee to the trade union building behind it. There, dozens of them become victims of flames, poison gas and brutal thugs. They die an excruciating death. Since then every year, always on May 2nd, thousands of people on the Kulikovo Field in front of the union building remember the unforgotten victims of Odessa. At the same time Ukrainian nationalists march through the streets of the city and celebrate their "Victory Day". The murderers of Odessa are still out of prison today. The film "Remember Odessa" looks into the deeply wounded soul of the torn city. The camera observes exactly the moment when nationalistic murderers and bereaved mourners of their brutally murdered victims meet in a confined space. Face to face. On the day of the tragedy. On 02 of May 2014. And four years later. On 02 May 2018. In the center of Odessa and on the Kulikovo Field in front of the trade union building. At the site of a terrible crime that has not been atoned for until now.
- A cult Ukrainian sketch show which combines both slapstick humor and stand-up elements to create what is established by creators as a "video comics".
- Fa.tal: adj- Causing ruin or destruction;disastrous / Prom.ise(s): noun- something that effects an express assurance; indication of what may be expected. Every year, an estimated 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders and forced into sexual or labour servitude. Estimates are that as many as 32 million people yearly are held in slave-like conditions for sexual or labour exploitation, 2.4 million of these individuals as a result of being trafficked. They are promised good jobs or pay, but end up forced into prostitution or working in servitude for no pay. They are emotionally and physically brutalized, starved, forced to work extremely long hours, stripped of their passports and locked away, and eventually discarded or worse, murdered. Eight years after the United Nations established the Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, "Fatal Promises" offers a comprehensive look at the realities on the ground versus the rhetoric of today's political efforts in combating human trafficking. While focusing on Ukraine as a country of origin and western European countries and the U.S. as countries of destination, "Fatal Promises" illuminates the magnitude of this global epidemic.
- A story of the officers, soldiers and seamen who have not betrayed their oath of loyalty to the people of Ukraine during the takeover of Crimea. This is a film about a military honor, in the midst of undeclared war.
- Directed by Raimondas Vabalas, an eccentric and buffoonish tragicomedy and a satirical pamphlet, making fun of chauvinism and petty politicians.
- The middle-aged journalist Kovalev finally gets the chance to become the chief editor of the newspaper. Not wanting to tempt fate, the hero turns to the party organizer for support. And then something unexpected happens - Kovalev is bitten in the ankle by a dog, and he becomes a werewolf. Turning into a terrible dog at night, Kovalev has been prowling around the city ever since and instilling fear in his readers.
- A voyage from the Ukraine to New York to Israel, portraying the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.
- ... It all started with a sudden feeling that something has permanently changed around us and in our life in the past 15 or 20 years. We have never noticed how the changes were taking place within our presence. As if we never have existed and there have never been all those years. The time of exposure is the life span of an object in frame. In this regard, any photo is not just two-dimensional graphic composition - it always has the third, temporal dimension, the temporal depth. A photo is a time carrier, a time vessel. It means - a vessel of memory... But whose memory?.. Of the Face or the Thing or the Landscape which are still on the photo?.. Of the Photographer?.. Having chosen photos as material of the film and memory as the theme, we inevitably find ourselves in a labyrinth of our own and the others' memories, of our own and the others' time being. And seeking for the escape we are becoming a part of this labyrinth and the material of the own film. This is a film about relationships that have developed between the Author and the Raw Material at the heart of his Creative Work to a point when the Material itself becomes the main character and the Author is compelled to become a part of the Material to keep a possibility of interacting with It on an equal footing.
- "SECONDO ME' follows three cloakroom attendants at three European opera houses: Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan and Odessa Opera House.