Filming a film about Nestor Makhno 

October 7, 2005. 

Fragments of the filming of the movie “The Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno” directed by Mykola Kaptan. 

On the video: an interview with Mykola Kaptan, talking about the film; actors on the set in uniform, the film crew, various shots, among the actors present are Boris Georgievsky, Stanislav Baklan; filming, girls in peasant clothes, soldiers walking. 

Commentary (in russian) is provided by the film director Mykola Kaptan and actor Igor Gnezdilov. 

Filming a movie about Nestor Makhno 

December 22, 2002, Kyiv. 

The plot is dedicated to the presentation of the feature film “Prayer for Hetman Mazepa” by film director Yuriy Illenko at the Cinema House. 

On the video: an excerpt from Yuriy Illenko’s speech about Vasyl Tsvirkun, one of the founders of Ukrainian poetic cinema; fragments of the film; film critics and visitors share their impressions of the film. 

Comments: film director Yuriy Illenko; documentary film director Lyudmila Mykhalevych; poetess Lina Kostenko; film director, playwright Mykhailo Lebedev. 

Created by: Svitlana Lushkaryova, Heorhiy Benkovsky. 

“Prayer for Hetman Mazepa” by Yuriy Illenko 

Kyiv, April 14, 2009. David Lynch arrives in Ukraine. 

Video: airport, Lynch comes out surrounded by people with flowers, enters the assembly hall of Karpenko-Kary University to applause, speaks from the stage, the audience gives a standing ovation, David Lynch enters a press conference, shows his book, signs autographs, Lynch at the book presentation, gets out of a minibus, is met by girls in Ukrainian national costumes, press conference at the airport. 

Reference: David Lynch is an American film director, musician, artist and actor. His films are characterized by elements of surrealism, an atmosphere of horror and delirium, strange and repulsive images and original music.

He received Oscar nominations for Best Director for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001). His film Wild at Heart (1990) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Other well-known films include Dune (1984), Lost Highway (1997) and Inland Empire (2006). He is one of the creators of the Twin Peaks series. Lynch has received numerous awards, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2006 and an honorary Academy Award in 2019.

In February 2022, after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, Lynch expressed support for the Ukrainian people and condemned the aggressor country.

David Lynch died on January 16, 2025. 

David Lynch in Ukraine: 2009

June 30, 2014, Kyiv.

The plot is dedicated to the first festival of documentary historical cinema at the Kyiv Fortress Museum.

Directors Taras Tkachenko, Serhiy Sotnychenko, Ivan Kanivets, Oleksandr Dombrovsky and other Ukrainian artists presented their films. The video contains fragments of Konstantin Shandybin’s films “Yuriy Khmelnytskyi” and Taras Tkachenko’s docudrama “Kobzar: The Story of a Book”.

Comments: Deputy General Director of the Kyiv Fortress Museum Oksana Novikova-Vygran; director Konstantin Shandybin; author of the festival idea Inna Goncharova.

The following worked on the release: Darya Tarasova, Yarema Malashchuk.

Documentary and Historical Film Festival

Kyiv, February 28, 2011.

A story about the visit of French-Swiss actor Alain Delon to Ukraine. Meeting at the airport, red carpet near the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko.

Comments: fans; doorman Rodrigo; journalist Dmytro Sviatenko.

Alain Delon in Kyiv

January 4, 2013, Kyiv.

In the video: people in the cinema; poster “Evening of French Cinema with Citroën”; on the screen, film stills; typewriters.

Commented by Anthelme Vido, attaché for audiovisual affairs of the French Embassy in Ukraine.

French cinema evenings

Kharkiv, Kharkiv Television Studio, 1969. The movie “Meeting with Myself”. 

A film about the actor Oleksandr Serdiuk (Les Serdiuk Sr.). The film uses fragments of feature films from the USSR State Film Fund: “Koliivshchyna”, ‘Nazar Stodolya’, ‘Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube’. The main roles in these films were played by Oleksandr Serdiuk. Also used are fragments from the plays Yaroslav the Wise, 97, Why the Stars Smiled, and others staged by actors of the Kharkiv Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko.

For reference: Oleksandr Serdiuk was a Ukrainian theater and film actor. For more than ten years he worked in Les Kurbas's Berezil Theater, and since 1934 he has been an actor at the Taras Shevchenko Kharkiv Drama Theater. Oleksandr Serdiuk's character Semen Nezhyvyi from the film Koliivshchyna became the prototype for the creation of the figure of Haydamak with a scythe and the figure of the One who breaks the chains in the ensemble of the Taras Shevchenko monument in Kharkiv. 


Oleksandr Serdyuk: a movie about the actor

Kyiv, September 1996. 

The video shows the visit of French actress Michelle Mercier to Ukraine, the actress's comments at the airport, Michelle Mercier at the celebration of the first anniversary of the 1+1 TV channel, her meeting with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.

Michel Mercier in Ukraine

1996, meeting with Polish theater and film actress Barbara Brylska. She talks about her roles and theater school.

Meeting with Barbara Brylska

The video is about the musical “Season of Miracles”. The movie is based on the story of the main character, a young artist Vadym Tavrov. The film features Alla Pugacheva, Mikhail Barsky and the vocal and instrumental ensemble Zemlyany. 

The film was directed by Georgiy Yungvald-Khilkevych and based on the story “Because Because” by Serhiy Abramov, in the village of Sokyrna, Cherkasy region.

The film is in Russian and was made in 1985. 

“Season of Miracles": a Soviet musical 

The film The Bullfighters of Vasyukivka is a short children's comedy based on one of the episodes of the eponymous novel by Vsevolod Nestayko. 

The film was shot in the village of Koropove (Korobiv Khutir), Kharkiv region. The film was produced by a regional television studio and won international awards: the Grand Prix at the Munich International Film Festival in 1968 and the main prize at the Alexandria International Film Festival in Egypt in 1969. 

Bullfighters from Vasyukivka

A story about the press conference of the Dutch actor Rutger Gauer at the first Odesa International Film Festival in 2010.

The Odesa International Film Festival is one of the largest audience film festivals in Eastern Europe, the main festival of national cinema, which has been held annually in mid-July since 2010. The main prize of the festival is the Golden Duke statuette.