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.

Presentation of the movie “Wild Field”

Kyiv, April 8, 2009.

The story is about a new film by Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi - “Heart on the Palm”. Ukrainian actor Bohdan Stupka is in the lead role. A journalist's stand-up, a movie poster, a press conference with the director and actors, stills from the movie, Bohdan Stupka with the silver Marcus Aurelius award from the Rome Film Festival.

Comments: People's Artist of Ukraine Bohdan Stupka; screenwriter, director Krzysztof Zanussi.

Krzysztof Zanussi: “The heart in the palm of your hand”

Kyiv, July 7, 2018.

Filming the film Forbidden about Vasyl Stus.

Comments: Dmytro Yaroshenko, who plays Vasyl Stus, about preparing for the filming of the prison scene; Roman Brovko, the film's director, about interesting topics for filming Ukrainian cinema; Artemiy Kirsanov, the screenwriter, about the task of humanizing the image of Stus; Stanislava Krasovska, who plays Svitlana Kyrychenko, about the fashion for everything Ukrainian, including Vasyl Stus and Ukrainian cinema.

For reference: In 2019, the film Forbidden was released about the Ukrainian poet and dissident Vasyl Stus. The film was shot in 2018-2019. During the filming, the title of the movie changed several times: first, it was called Bird of the Soul, then Stus, and finally Forbidden. In the process of filming the movie, an episode from the last trial of Vasyl Stus, where Viktor Medvedchuk was his lawyer, was removed from the script. The fact that this episode was deleted was perceived negatively by the society.

Filming of the movie “Forbidden”

Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company. Issue of the cycle program “Countrymen” for September 1, 2001 about the life and creative path of theater and film actor Stepan Shkurat.

On the video: black and white photos with the actor, excerpts from films; chronicle: monument to Taras Shevchenko in the city of Romny, excerpt from an interview with sculptor and film director Ivan Kavaleridze, tells about Stepan Shkurat and his contribution to the construction of the monument; daughter-in-law's story about family customs; fragment of musical works performed by Stepan Shkurat.

Contains fragments of the films "Chapaev", "Earth", Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube", "Horsemen".

Comments: sculptor, film director Ivan Kavaleridze; artistic director of the Romensky City Center for Culture and Leisure (MCKD) Mykola Dyadechko; daughter-in-law of the actor Nina Shkurat.

Worked on the release: Alla Fedorina, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, Natalia Narodnytska, Olga Sheptunova, Vitaliy Bukin.

Reference: Stepan Shkurat is a Ukrainian actor, known for his roles in classic Soviet films. He gained popularity thanks to the role of the policeman Potapov in the film "Chapaev" (1934) and Afanas Trubenko in "Earth" (1930) by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Also important stages of his career are the role of Mykola in the opera "Natalka-Poltavka" (1936) and Yavtukha in the film "Viy" (1967).

“I didn’t play, I lived”: Stepan Shkurat

Kyiv, November 1, 2009.

A plot about the Ukrainian film festival “Molodist”, its participants and famous guests. The stage, guests in the hall, statuettes “Scythian deer”, the awarding ceremony. Jean-Claude Van Dam performs a dance. 

Comments: American and Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme; French director Tony Gatliff; Georgian director Giorgi Ovashvili. 