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Sound
of the Wind, 2002. |
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Original title: Shum vietra
Copyright: Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, 2002.
Format: feature, full-length
Carrier: DVD
Color: black-and-white, sepia
Length: 79"
Original language: Russian
English subtitles: yes
Film crew
Director, and script writer: Serhiy Masloboyshchykov
Cinematographer: Bohdan Verzhbytsky
Art director: Yevhenia Lisetska
Composer: Yukhym Hofman
Editing: Olena Lukashenko
Sound: Natalia Dombruhova
Musical theme: F. Schuberts' "Erlkonig"
Made at the Dovzhenko National Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Film cast
Alla Serhiyko as Sasha
Nykon Romanchenko as Aliosha
Dmytro Lalenkov as Andrey
Denys Karasiov as Maksym
Natalia Dolia as Anna
Vadym Skurativsky as Somov
Andriy Dementiev as Samoilenko
Synopsys
A story of existential human loneliness, loss, and incapability
to connect emotionally and intellectually with those
closest to you. Beautiful photography. Cerebral arthouse.
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There Was a Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, 2005 |
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Original title: Stoyala sobi khatka
Copyright: Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine and the Interfilm Production
Studio, 2005
Format: documentary, short
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 30"
Original language: Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes
Film crew
Director: Olena Fetysova
Script writer: Olena Fetysova
Cinematographer: Oleh Zorin, Olena Fetysova, Dmytro
Sanikov
Editor: Artem Sukharev
Sound: Yevhen Petrushenko
Executive producer: Volodymyr Kozyr
Producer: Olena Fetysova
Music soundtrack: Roman Hrynkiv
Synopsis
Homeless children can bee seen today in the streets
of many Ukrainian cities. This film is about two
wonderful people, the Tarnopolsky family who offer
their own solution to this problem. Says Nadia Tarnopolska, “… that’s
what my husband and I used to think, that if every
family took in at least one child that’s on
the streets, in a children’s home, at a crisis
center, then we wouldn’t have any orphans.
There just wouldn’t be any. It’s not
the children’s fault, what happened and why
them. They are no worse than any child from a settled
home. They all need warmth and affection. And if
we can share with them, we’re grateful to God
that he gives us the chance to do something for them!” |
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Streetcar
Number Nine, 2002. |
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Original title; Ishov tramvay nomer dev'yat'
Copyright: Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, 2002.
Format: animation, short
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 9"
Original language: Ukrainian and surzhyk (Russian-contaminated
Ukrainian)
English subtitles: no (self-explanatory without subtitles)
Film crew
Director and script writer: Stepan Koval
Cinematographer: O.Nikolayenko
Artistic advisor: Ye. Syvokin
Composer: Ihor Zhuk
Sound: V. Yashchenko
Synopsys
A humorous snippet of everyday life in a Ukrainian city
enacted by passengers from all walks of life stuffed
into a packed streetcar.
Awards
Winner of the Jury Prize Silver Bear at the Berlin International
Film Festival, 2003. |
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The
Tragic Love for Unfaithful Nuska, 2004. |
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Original title: Trahichna liubov do zradlyvoyi Nusky
Copyright: Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine, 2004.
Format: feature, short
Carrier: DVD
Color: black-and-white, sepia
Length: 20"
Original language: Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes
English subtitles by Roksolana Podpirka and Ulana Pasicznyk,
the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University.
Film crew
Director and screen writer: Taras Tkachenko
Cinematographer: Andriy Samarets
Decoration: Olena Yaremenko
Editing: Olena Zolotukhina
Sound: Svitlana Sokoliuk
Film cast
Vitia Yerynenko as
Zhenia Romanchuk as Yurko
Natalia Ozirska as Nuska
Asia Yaremenko as Little girl
Alex Pecherytsia as Soldier
Zhenia Yemelianova Pharmacist
Synopsys
From Stephen Raks' review, "Tragic Love for Unfaithful
Nuska, based on Yuri Vynnychenko's short story "A
Grenade for Two," is a sepia-toned film that follows
the antics of two young friends as they vie for the
attention of the older, beautiful, girl-next-door Nuska.
In the first few episodes of the film, the boys spy
on Nuska from a distance: from the cover of reeds while
she bathes in a pond, from behind a fence as she walks
by. Even as their actions progress from voyeurism to
poetry-writing, to a suicidal pact, the film maintains
an aura of light-hearted innocence
One of the film's greatest strengths is its almost magical
realism. The film unfolds as a sort of dreamscape, with
each scene achieving its own individual timelessness.
Throughout the film, Tkachenko employs unconventional
camera angles, and his compositions reveal an impressive
sense of depth and space. The director explained that
the film springs from his own experiences growing up
in Ukraine in the 1970s, and it is clear that memory
and its reconstruction (remembering) is a significant
theme of the film". |
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Viy,
1967. |
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Original title: Viy
Copyright: Mosfilm, 1967.
Format:feature, full-length
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 78"
Original language: Russian with some Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes
Film crew
Director: Georgii Kropachev and Kostiantyn Yershov
Supervising Director and Art Director: Aleksandr Ptushko
Script writer: Georgii Kropachev, Kostiantyn Yershov,
Aleksandr Ptushko, based on a novella by Nikolai Gogol
Cinematographers: Viktor Pishchalnikov, Fedor Provorov
Editing: R. Pesetskaya, Tamara Zubova
Costumes: Roza Satunovskaya
Production Design: Nikolai Markin
Special Effects Supervisor: Aleksandr Ptushko
Film cast
Leonid Kuravlev as Khoma Brutus
Natalia Varley as Pannochka
Aleksei Glazyrin, Vadim Zakharchenko, Nikolai Kutuzov
Synopsys
Khoma Brutus, a young theology student of Kyiv-Mohyla
Seminary is ordered to hold vigil over the corpse of
Pannochka, a Ukrainian nobleman's daughter who is a
witch. The vigil is in a small old wooden church of
a remote village near Kyiv. The order means spending
three nights alone with the corpse which, it turns out,
is not quite so dead. Khoma has only his faith to protect
him against the hell that breaks loose. It is the first
and perhaps the only horror film the Soviets allowed
to be made. |
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