Dovzhenko Centre's Top 100 Ukrainian Films

Une histoire des Carpates intemporelle - le jeune Ivan tombe amoureux de la fille du meurtrier de son père, au sein du peuple Houtsoul en Ukraine.

Dans la campagne paisible, Vassily s'oppose aux riches kulaks contre l'arrivée de l'agriculture collective.

Un homme parcourt une ville avec une caméra en bandoulière, documentant la vie urbaine avec une invention éblouissante.

Un garçon sourd rejoint un internat pour enfants similaires. Confronté aux singeries violentes et criminelles de certains autres garçons et filles, il lutte pour se conformer et rejoindre la « tribu ».

The Stone Cross (Kaminnyy khrest, 1968), based on two short stories ("The Stone Cross" and "The Thief," both published in 1900) by Galician novelist Vasyl Stefanyk.

In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.

À la veille de son quarantième anniversaire, un homme réalise que rien dans sa vie ne vaut grand-chose.

Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the village band, but as the battles between the Ukrainian nationalists and the Soviets go on, their band loses one player after another.

Une mère célibataire est désorientée par les changements survenus chez son fils adolescent, devenu distant depuis les vacances d'été passées avec son père.

The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance.

A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.

A Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella by Nikolay Gogol.

Nadia déménage en ville et devient femme de ménage dans l'appartement de Valya. Valya est membre du comité de quartier et ne sait pas que Nadia est tombée amoureuse de son mari, le géologue Maksim, lorsqu'il s'était rendu dans son village.

Dans l'est de l'Ukraine, la société commence à se détériorer à mesure que les effets de la propagande et de la manipulation font surface dans cette époque post-vérité.

In Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, almost unknown today. Pictures of wakening city, its resurging life resonate with lyrical views of reviving nature. Kaufman's attentive camera dwells deliberately on smiling faces of children, lyrically depicting a declaration of love to Kyiv. In In Spring, Kaufman used the method of «hidden camera» for the first time.

During World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.

Madcap comedy set in early 20th century Kyiv about a barber whose fondness for drink, gambling, and women lead to bankruptcy. He marries an ugly rich woman to solve his financial woes, but pines for a virtuous beauty who despises him.

An old sea captain and his student decide to take part in the international regatta. At the same time an amateur thief steals a statue of Aphrodite from Louvre and boards their yacht by mistake. A long, fun adventure is ahead.

An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.

Un ingénieur du son de vingt-deux ans part au Canada dans trois mois. Pour toujours. Avant le départ, il est chargé d'enregistrer la voix d'un oiseau très rare, qui ne vit que dans les montagnes de Transcarpathie en Ukraine.

Un vieil homme vit comme un ermite dans le désert, seul avec uniquement ses souvenirs et ses photos.

A few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.

What is self-organization? How is democracy created? Who decides a punishment? Where are the center and the periphery of the revolution? Where does it start and where does it end? A brief power vacuum turns into the moment of greatest potentiality, when the beliefs of the past and the strategies for the future are discussed. The film tries to look at the mundane spaces of the city, and to understand whether the historical and revolutionary uncertainty is still there.

The story is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the local partisans kills a German officer, the occupants vow to kill the whole village if the perpetrator is not found and delivered to them.

A demobilized Red Army soldier returns to his village. Inspired by the spirit of collectivism, he plows a field so that the kulak's portion now belongs to the community, and sows it with grain confiscated from the 'philistines'. His father, a man of traditional world outlook, lives in a pantheistic world of the Ukrainian ethos, where sin has a physical dimension. He does not believe that the stolen grain will sprout on the stolen land. When the grain finally sprouts, the old man admits that his son was right; for the sake of building a new world, the old laws of the universe should be broken.