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.

“Ruthenia. Return of the Nation's Code”: film presentation

November 20, 2014, Kyiv.

The plot about the documentary film by French director Benedikte Banet - “The Holodomor. The forgotten genocide”. Benedikt Banet at the Les Kurbas National Center for Theater Arts, audience at the film premiere, the director on stage, film footage, Banet in the archive, archive photos.

Comments: director Benedikte Banet; historian Nina Lapchynska; Yuriy Makukh, Kyiv resident.

French movie about the Holodomor

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1992.

Film-performance “In a Fashionable Way” based on the comedy by Mykhailo Starytsky.

Director — Yuriy Nekrasov.

Cast: Les Serdyuk, Aliciya Omelchuk, Larysa Kolesnyk, Oksana Kovhanych, Gafiya Bolotova, Volodymyr Zozulya, Oleg Nekrasov, Tamara Yatsenko, Heorhiy Bukur, Halyna Kovhanych, Oleksandr Belina.

“In a Fashionable Way” by Mykhailo Starytsky

November 14, 2002, Kyiv.

The video shows the premiere of the film “A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa” directed by Yuriy Illienko at the Ukraine Cinema. People near the cinema, famous people give comments, people in Cossack costumes, a Cossack on horseback, a press conference after the movie.

Comments: actor Mykyta Dzhyhurda; film director Yuriy Ilyenko; actor Bohdan Stupka; actress Liudmyla Yefymenko; poet, playwright Yuriy Rybchynsky; audience.

 “A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa": movie premiere

March 24, 1997, Kyiv.

The plot is dedicated to the memory of actress Maria Kapnist.

In the video, Maria Kapnist gives an interview, with friends and family, on stage. Contains fragments of a lifetime interview from 1993.

Reference: Maria Kapnist is a Ukrainian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. Daughter of Count Rostyslav Kapnist and granddaughter of poet Vasyl Kapnist. After her father's arrest and exile to the Gulag, she returned to Ukraine, where she gained popularity thanks to roles in theaters and cinema, becoming a national favorite.

Evening in memory of Maria Kapnist

Kyiv, 2016.

The story is about the presentation of the documentary about football coach Valeriy Lobanovsky “Lobanovsky Forever”. Footage from the movie is used.

Comments: sports journalist Jacques Ferrand; football player Andriy Shevchenko; sports journalist, co-producer and co-writer Serhiy Polkhvskyi; film director Anton Azarov; journalist Kostyantyn Andriyuk.

Presentation of the film ‘Lobanovsky Forever’

November 6, 2018, Kyiv.

The video shows the presentation of the film Wild Field based on the novel Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadan. The movie theater, people at the screening, movie posters, musicians, a press conference with the filmmakers. Commentary: writer, author of the novel Voroshylovgrad Serhiy Zhadan; actor, leading role of Oleh Moskalenko; director Yaroslav Lodyhin.