Film Library
Sound of the Wind, 2002.
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.

 
There Was a Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, 2005

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!”

Streetcar Number Nine, 2002.
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.

 
The Tragic Love for Unfaithful Nuska, 2004.
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".

Viy, 1967.
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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