Yurii Shumskyi Movies

The action takes place against the backdrop of a looming war. Soviet intelligence intercepts an order from the high command of Nazi Germany to cross...

Genre: War

Cast: Borys Bezhin

After working for twenty years in the village of Kalinovaya Roscha, the once energetic chairman of the collective farm, Ivan Romanyuk, "broke down"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Viktor Dobrovolsky

The seamy Jewish underworld of Odesa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matvei Lyarov

Set in Odesa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Hordii Yaroshchuk, lives with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Amvrosii Buchma

The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. At that time, it was one of the most expensive...

Genre: History

Cast: Amvrosii Buchma

Lost film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (his first film) and Favst Lopatynskyi. It is a satire of the NEP period. Vasia, the son of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vasyl Liudvynskyi

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.

Genre: Action

Cast: Mikhail Astangov

The performance of the Kiev state academic Ukrainian drama theater about two friends, in the past — participants of the civil war, and now...

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Cast: Dmytro Milyutenko

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Ivan Pereverzev

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Semyon Svashenko