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Sergei Parajanov. A Visit 1994
In November 1988, director Anatoly Syrykh met with Sergei Parajanov in Tbilisi to make a documentary about him. However, Parajanov was clearly not in the mood to talk about his art. As a compromise, Syrykh offers to talk about the artist and time. The tired, offended director of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" forbids Syrykh to film him. He agrees only to speak, recalling the most unpleasant moments of his life.

Unpublished Album 1991
A documentary about the enthusiastic photographer Igor Kostin, who worked at the Chornobyl disaster site.

The July Storms. Outburst 1991
The second film of The July Storms duology starts with an accident at the Pochenkov Mine in February 1990, which caused the death of 13 miners. Since the summer protests, the real situation in the mines hardly changed; this lead to the second wave of miners' protests in 1990-91. This time, the miners' slogans include political demands, mentioning the decommunization of power and Ukraine's independence. The miners' representatives meet the communist officials, in particular with Stanislav Hubenko, the last First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and Nikolay Ryzhkov, the head of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The miners meet the August coup and the final disintegration of the country of the Soviets in strike committees.

Chornobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks 1990 star_border 6.8
The first film made following the nuclear meltdown accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, reactor 4, near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, on the 26 April 1986, focuses on the immediate aftermath of the disaster and the cleanup effort.

Turn on the Beatles! 1990

Ой, на горі калина 1989

Shadow of the Sarcophagus 1989

Right to Truth 1989

The July Storms. Strike 1989
The July Storms is a dilogy about the first mass protests in Soviet Ukraine in a long time. The parts of the dilogy, Strike and Outburst, are dedicated to two waves of miners' strikes in Donetsk, in 1989 and 1990, which were unprecedented in scale. Several hundred thousand miners took part in these historical strikes. The events themselves became a significant factor in the history of the collapse of the Soviet communist system. While recording the unfolding of the strike and the miners' speeches on the square in Donetsk, the film's creators also observe the miners' miserable living conditions and hard working conditions at the Lidiyevka mine.

Threshold 1988
Documentary about the problems of lonely old age of pensioners of Chornobayiv District, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine; pensioners give interviews during household work.

Hryhoriy Havrylenko. The bright figure 1988

Mi-cro-pnone! 1988
At the time of its creation, this documentary had a great public resonance, as the director was one of the first to bring to the public the true information about the ecological consequences of the Chornobyl disaster and uncompromisingly publicize problematic issues. The film quickly went around the screens of the world and won awards at prestigious international festivals.

Душа милосердна 1987

Pain and Scream 1987
Documentary about drunkenness and alcoholism in the Soviet Union.

Євшан-зілля Михайла Сікорського 1986

Chornobyl. Breaking Bread 1986
Short documentary about the soldiers who worked in the rear, baking bread for the liquidators. The leitmotif that set the pace for the entire film was the countdown of the metronome, as every minute was extremely important.

Speech after the Execution 1985
Documentary about Vadym Yakovych Boyko, Ukrainian writer, novelist, prisoner of Auschwitz.

Не тільки про моду 1984

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