Lviv Television Studio, 1961.

A story about the screening of the film ‘The Tale of Flaming Years’ in Lviv. On video: Lviv cinema, film posters, poster for the new wide-screen film ‘The Tale of the Flaming Years’, visitors inside the cinema, in the cinema hall, cinema mechanic at work, film fragments.

Reference: ‘The Tale of Flaming Years’ by director Yulia Solntseva is the first Soviet wide-screen feature film. The screenplay was written by Alexander Dovzhenko. The film depicts the Soviet-German war of 1941-1945 and the participation of a Ukrainian soldier in it. The film won the award for best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961.

‘The Tale of the Flaming Years’: Lviv premiere

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2017.

The documentary film "The Seventies. Ivan Mykolaychuk" is dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian actor and director Ivan Mykolaychuk.

On the video: the Oleksandr Dovzhenko film studio, the courtyard, excerpts from Soviet cinema; footage from films with Ivan Mykolaychuk; "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", the history of the film's creation; the history of Ukrainian poetic cinema, Soviet chronicles of the 60s–80s.

Comments: People's Artist of Ukraine Larysa Kadochnikova; Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine Serhiy Trymbach; Honored Artists Vasyl Ilyashenko and Viktor Gres; People's Artist of Ukraine Maria Mykolaychuk; People's Artist of Ukraine Roman Balayan.

Host — Mark Gres.

Reference: Ivan Mykolaychuk is a Ukrainian actor, director and screenwriter, one of the leading artists of national cinema of the second half of the 20th century. Performer of 34 film roles, among which the images of Ivan Paliychuk in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" and Taras Shevchenko in the film "Dream" gained special recognition. Author of scripts and directorial works "Babylon XX" and "Such a Late, Such a Warm Autumn", laureate of the Shevchenko Prize (1988, posthumously).

"The Seventies": Ivan Mykolaychuk

December 17, 2009, Kyiv.

The plot is dedicated to the restoration work in the film collections of the Dovzhenko Film Studio.

On the video: restoration of films, Leonid Osyka's film "Stone Cross", the improved quality of the film is demonstrated; comments from high-ranking officials.

Comments: Chairman of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine Serhiy Trymbach; General Director of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio Ihor Stavchansky; First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov.

Restoration of the film collections of the Dovzhenko Film Studio

25 March 2004, Chernivtsi.

Video interview with Ukrainian actor Andriy Bilous about the filming of the feature film Mamai. Chernivtsi cinema, poster, excerpts from the film.

Interview with actor Andriy Bilous

16 January 2009, Truskavets, Lviv Region.

A story about an international television film festival. Stand-up journalist, city streets, snow, pump room, children's nativity scene, artists singing on stage. Comments: Honoured Artist of Ukraine Olga Sumskaya; Honoured Actor of Ukraine Vitaliy Borisyuk; People's Artist of Ukraine Volodymyr Goryansky; Chairman of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine Boris Savchenko; Festival Director Oleksandr Makhotin; Actor Serhiy Baryshev; Festival Organiser Oleg Karpin.

Film festival in Truskavets

March 31, 2009, Kamianets-Podilskyi.

On the video: presentation of the film "Taras Bulba", people near the cinema, Cossacks on horses; Cossack duel with sabers, cannon shots; the performer of the main role, actor Bohdan Stupka, enters the cinema; press conference.

Comments: director Taras Tkachenko, actor Bohdan Stupka, mayor of Kamianets-Podilskyi Anatoliy Nesteruk.

Presentation of the film "Taras Bulba"

July 20, 2010, Odesa.

A plot on events during the First Odesa International Film Festival. Dutch and American actor Rutger Gauer holds a master class, film footage, press conference of Russian actor Vladimir Mashkov and film director Alexei Uchitel, pool party.

Comments: Ukrainian actress Olga Sumska; jury member, French actor Gregoire Colin.

First Odesa International Film Festival

2004, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program “Mirror” is dedicated to the 34th Molodist International Film Festival.

In the video: screensavers, fragments of the festival, fragments of the films presented. Comments: Festival Director General Andriy Halpakhchi; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to Ukraine Philippe de Surremin; Doctor of Arts, Professor Vadym Skuratovskyi; film director Kira Muratova; screenwriter Yevhen Holubenko; festival participants; jury member Yuriy Tereshchenko; member of the selection committees of Italian film festivals Giuseppe Gagliazzo.

34th Molodist Film Festival

The video shows the "Zhovten" cinema in the city of Chernivtsi on March 5, 1965. Meeting of moviegoers with the main actor of the film "Dream" — Ivan Mykolaichuk and the Ukrainian poet, editor of the film — Mykhailo Tkach.

Background: Ivan Mykolaychuk was born on June 15, 1941, in the village of Chortorya, Chernivtsi region. He is a Ukrainian film actor, film director, screenwriter, and writer. He was awarded the Shevchenko Prize in 1988 (posthumously). He played 34 film roles, wrote 9 screenplays, and has two directorial works. In the Ukrainian SSR, he was labeled “unreliable”. He was called the “soul of Ukrainian cinema”. His most famous role is Ivan in the film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors directed by Serhiy Parajanov. The film gained worldwide recognition.

Ivan Mykolaychuk died of cancer on August 3, 1987. He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.

Meeting with Ivan Mykolaichuk at the "October" cinema

May 20, 2007, Kyiv.

The story is about a free 15-minute screening of Ukrainian films before the main screening. Poster, cinema, cash desk, movie projector, reels, excerpts from the films On the Verge, Tram 9, The Devil, Shooting Gallery. Commentary: Head of the State Cinematography Service Hanna Chmil; film director Andriy Rudenko; audience.

Film magazine “New Moon”

December 12, 2008, Kyiv. 

Footage of the 80th anniversary of Ukrainian actor Leonid Bykov. Ukrainian film director Mykola Mashchenko carries flowers to the bust on Bykov's grave, people lay flowers, shots from the films Maxim Perepelytsia, Only Old Men Go to Battle. 

Comments: Ukrainian film director, People's Artist Mykola Mashchenko; Honored Artist of Ukraine Serhiy Sibel; film critic Natalia Medvedeva.

Leonid Bykov: 80 years

July 24, 2020, Cosmopolite shopping center, Kinoman cinema, Kyiv.

The video is a pre-premiere screening of the documentary Ruthenia. The Return of the Nation's Code”, which explores the history of the written language, introduces the viewer to the Ukrainian school of calligraphy and the restored Ruthenian alphabet. Poster, singer, guests taking pictures, speeches, cinema hall with audience, film footage.

Commentary: graphic artist, author of the Ruthenia font Vasyl Chebanyk; film director Antonina Gottfried; screenwriter Natalia Yakovleva.