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location_onKiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSRpublicSU

Tom Soyer 2019 star_border 4
About a merry, smart boy Tom Soyer, that, testing, as him it seemed to, all facilities, to be good, decided nevertheless to go away from home and become a marine robber.

Intrigan 2019
The cadet Vasya Yarochkin and his girlfriend Olya attempt to catch an escaped stallion named "Intriguer".

A Severe Young Man 2019 star_border 5.3
The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. The cast of characters is extremely unlikely in almost every conventional respect. The action involves the household of the prominent Dr. Stepanov and his young wife, Masha, who share their large and richly adorned mansion with the parasitical Fedor Tsitronov, whose presence in the household is given only the most implausible of explanations. Equally implausible is the acquaintance of the family with the young and proud Grisha Fokin, whose leadership role in the Young Communist League is never clearly defined and who is never seen engaged in any work or professional activity.

Victory on the Right Bank Ukraine 1945 star_border 4.7
Dovzhenko and Solntseva's documentary about the end of the war.

Liberation 1940 star_border 6.3
Wartime documentary by Dovzhenko and Solntseva.

Nazar Stodolya 1937

An Agreement in the Forrest 1937
The first Ukrainian animated film in color and sound. The animals make an agreement - to work and live in peace. Their "League of Nations" is joined by a fox who, having lulled the vigilance of his neighbors with the sweet melody of the barrel-organ with a picture of a dove of peace on it, insidiously breaks the agreement. One of the film's directors, Ipolyt Lazarchuk, became the "father" of the Ukrainian animation school in the post-war period.

Natalka Poltavka 1936 star_border 5
This film is the first adaptation of an operetta written by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. It follows the trials and tribulations of Natalka and Peter (Petro). The sweethearts planned to get married; however, Natalka's father does not approve of the marriage because Petro was not affluent enough to keep Natalka in the manner he thought that she should be kept. Petro goes off to earn the required fortune.

I Love 1936 star_border 10
Once a long ago the father of Ostap left a village and came on earnings to Donbas. The lined up a shanty put beginning to miner's settlement of Sobacheevka. Ostap went on the way of father, thirty years of bending a back on the owner of mine. And when a father was driven out from work, Ostap understood that it is senseless to blame in the troubles only master.

Prometey 1936 star_border 4.6
The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill fame. In the troops an ordinary peasant gets acquainted with an ideological revolutionary and becomes inspired with the feeling of inequity to the existing social structure. And when the time comes to return to the native village, he will make the sir pays by his blood for all wrong-doings against the peasants. A film based on works and biography of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861).

The Magic Ring 1936
The greatest achievement of Ukrainian animation in the 1930s was the epic animated film "The Magic Ring", an independent director's work by Semen Huietskyi. The epic animated film, unfortunately, has not been preserved, we only have Borys Kryzhanivskyi's impressions: "It was really beautifully made. With great taste, without sentimentality and excessive stylization. In the film, the approaches to the creation of national cartoons in the form of cartoons, which have their roots in folk art, were clarified. But the film "The Magic Ring" was declared a manifestation of "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism" and put on the shelf. The director had to leave the studio."

Aerograd 1935 star_border 4.6
Aerograd is a 1935 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Olexander Dovzhenko, Mosfilm-VUFKU coproduction. It is a futuristic adventure story set in the Soviet Far East. Considered one of two sound masterpieces by Dovzhenko, the other being "Ivan".

Beautiful Garden 1935
To help out his friend Lenya, Yura steals a Stradivarius violin belonging to the professor from his grandfather, a violin maker. Having learned about everything, the professor begins to study with the talented Lenya. Circus performers persuade Lenya to give up the violin and perform in the circus...

Happy End 1935 star_border 6
A team of welders is actively preparing for international sports. Marko considers himself incapable of sports and shies away from training. But acquaintance with active gymnast Anya changes his attitude to sports. He devotes all his free time to training and is the first to come to the finish line at the running championship. He is sent to international competitions in Moscow.

Tuk-Tuk and His Friend Zhuk 1935 star_border 7
A boy named Tuk and his dog Zhuk have a vegetable garden, but their harvest is in danger from Pig and Fox who are looking for a quick profit.

The Czarina Commands 1934
The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.

Murzilka in Africa 1934
A group of Soviet children, together with Murzilka, go to Africa to free the Negro girl Kane from captivity. Overcoming difficulties and obstacles, they wrest Kane from the grip of the oppressor-colonizer.

The Last Night 1933
Historical-revolutionary film about the struggle of the Bolshevik underground against the interventionists during the civil war in Odessa, about the participation of children in underground work.

Congratulations on Your Promotion 1932
A group of 6th grade school children master their everyday lives. Van'ka has inventive talent, but he can't cope in class. His loyal friend Aleša tries to protect him. The curious and ambitious Katja thinks Van'ka is lazy, but she also has some problems at school due to her great commitment to the pioneer group, of which all three of them are members. Will Van’ka and Katja successfully complete the school year or have to repeat the 6th grade?

Ivan 1932 star_border 5
After the critical lambasting of his masterpiece Earth, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs. Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life, disrupted by the beat of looming industrialisation.

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