Films on Ukraine
Feature, short and documentary films concerning Ukraine (plot, mentioning, characters etc.)
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- DirectorEnrico CullenStarsIvan Mykhailovych HrysIvan Karlovych LukachFedir TokachA portrait of rural melancholia, SALT IN THE AIR exhumes the spirit of salt from a 3,500-year-old salt mine in a foggy and hardscrabble Carpathian Mountain village. With rhythmic pacing and intimacy, SALT IN THE AIR connects actual salt with the landscapes and the lives that salt touches. Innovative asthma clinics where patients inhale salt crystals. The enduring legacy of salt pork. And the salt-miners' struggle to sustain a solemn covenant with what was once the most valuable material on Earth.
- DirectorRoxy ToporowychStarsRoxy ToporowychFeaturing the legendary ballerina and choreographer Roma Pryma Bohachevsky and the Syzokryli Dance Ensemble of New York, the Virsky National Dance Company of Ukraine, the Kashtan School of Ukrainian Dance in Cleveland and The Voloshky Dance Ensemble of Philadelphia, "Folk!", dubbed the greatest film about Ukrainian folk dancing ever, explores the unique underground and acrobatic world of Ukrainian folk dancing through the eyes of narrator/filmmaker Roxy Toporowych. This documentary is the first film to be a joyful embracement of Ukrainian culture and dance in North America today as well as a musical feature that is also extremely relevant to anyone trying to balance ties to one's heritage and culture.
- DirectorTetyana ChernyavskaRainer LudwigsStarsLjudmilla KorzhAn animated Biography of a so-called Liquidator who grew up 3km away from the Chernobyl reactor. The film comprehends the development of this world disaster through the destiny of the protagonist and his family. The small episodes reconstruct the emotional dimension of the tragedy: The children which run to the burning reactor, getting a look on the spectacular drama, the unsuspecting village people in the surrounded area, the animals which remain behind after the evacuation, and the helpless tries of mankind to eliminate the follows of the nuclear disaster, accompanied with the faceless, communist Soviet system. After all there is a happy end: The triumph of life over the catastrophe.
- DirectorMarianna KaatStarsJura SikanovJulia SikanovaUljana SikanovaThe eastern Ukrainian town of Snezhnoje, which prospered during the Soviet era when miners there were spoiled with all kinds of privileges, now lives in poverty.
- DirectorJakob PreussDonetsk is the coal-mining area of Ukraine. Here most people work for low wages in the run down mines, while others make a lot of money. No matter which side of the social divide you are on, coming from Donetsk you will almost certainly be an opponent of the Orange Revolution and a fan of the local football team, Shakhtar Donetsk. Billionaire Akhmetov invests heavily in the club, which is becoming a major European force during the season followed by the film. Yet this sporting success funded by an Oligarch fortune only seems to highlight the wider social and political stagnation of the region. Off the pitch, the outlook appears bleak...
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsNaomi WattsViggo MortensenArmin Mueller-StahlA teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
- DirectorLiev SchreiberStarsElijah WoodEugene HutzBoris LyoskinA young Jewish American man, with the help of an eccentric local, endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
- DirectorGaël MocaërEvery day hundreds of men risk life and limb going down into the Buzhanska mine in the Ukraine to mine coal with rusty old tools from the Soviet era.
- DirectorTomás HodanStarsDmitry Vasilievich VorohtaA movie about rich life in the poor country.
- DirectorHans-Christian SchmidStarsAndrzej GórakAnna YanovskayaSergey FrolovThis movie reflects on the situation around the border between Poland and Germany. The fate of many single characters creates a picture of life in this region: Some Ukrainians want to cross the border illegal to get into Germany, a company wants to build a new factory, a Polish taxi driver desperately needs money to buy his daughter a First Communion dress, and so on.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsKseniya RappoportMichele PlacidoClaudia GeriniHaunted by a horrible past, a young Ukrainian woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.
- DirectorDanny LernerStarsOlga KurylenkoNinet TayebHenry DavidA woman forced to work for the Russian Mafia as an assassin agrees to help her next-door neighbor kill her abusive husband.
- DirectorSophie BarthesAndrij ParekhStarsStephanie SzostakSteve BenistyArsen Tymoshenko"Snowblink", inspired by a Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story, portrays the honeymoon of a young French couple who are crossing the Ukraine. The couple's journey through the snow-covered steppes leads them to a face-to-face encounter with the machinery of bureaucracy.
- DirectorAndrei ZagdanskyStarsLeonid KuchmaVictor YanukovichViktor YushchenkoThey poisoned the opposition candidate. But he survived. They exerted full control over the media. But one rebelled. They stole the election. And streets erupted. This is the story of the Orange Revolution in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- DirectorAndré SchreudersStarsAlec KopytA musician from Amsterdam returns to Moldavanka - the former Jewish neighborhood of Odessa - his place of birth and the cradle of old-time Russian Mafia songs.
- DirectorJan-Hinrik DrevsRené HarderStarsVladimir Andreyevich PilipenkoAnya Michailovna PilipenkoSergei Semyonovich HoncharovVladimir Pilipenko built a submarine. Life size. And in the village lake, his submarine worked. But Vladimir has set his sights on something bigger than the local pond. Can his sub really dive in the Black Sea?
- DirectorNaomi UmanHoping to experience what it is like to be an immigrant, the filmmaker sets off on a reverse journey that her great grandparents made in 1906. In 2006 Naomi Uman came to Ukraine, knowing no one, not speaking the language, and began a life in a small village where people still live as if it were 100 years ago.
- DirectorMiroslaw DembinskiStarsRuslana LyzhickoYulia TymoshenkoViktor YushchenkoWhen in November 2004 the Orange Revolution broke out in Ukraine, Poland's Dwarves, sporting this silly symbol as a rally for their underground protest group, decided to come to the Ukrainian revolutionaries' aid.
- DirectorDamian KolodiyFilmmaker Damian Kolodiy arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine expecting to stay for two weeks. Instead, a revolution exploded around him that inspired the world!
- DirectorChristoph BoekelOn April 26, 1986, an inconceivable event happened and a nightmare scenario became horrific reality: the day reactor block 4 of the Chernobyl atomic power station exploded. In their attempts to contain the disaster, Russian firefighters were exposed to multiple deadly doses of radioactivity. Three weeks later almost all of them were dead. Very little information about the true extent of the radioactive contamination managed to find its way out to the public. Twenty years later, this vivid, moving documentary film, told from the personal perspective of the filmmaker, is a requiem for the often forgotten victims of the disaster and a caveat against putting blind trust in technological advancement.
- DirectorKarsten HeinStarsPatrick von BlumeOne percent of the Ukrainian population is HIV-infected, that is half a million people. In this documentary, a follow-up to "AIDS in Odessa" (2004), the filmmakers embark on a journey through the East of Ukraine to meet patients and carers.
- DirectorJaroslav VojtekStarsPeter LizákTibor TóthStefan TóthA documentary about a village that was during one night in 1947 separated by force into a Soviet and a Czechoslovak part in a way, that the border runs through the middle of the village, separating properties and families.
- DirectorZsuzsa BöszörményiKai SalminenStarsÁdám RajhonaA tragicomic story about a village on the border between east and west. The village decides to challenge the European Union, only to find that constant change is a guarantee for no change at all.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterAfter 1986, a restricted zone was erected at a radius of 30km around Chernobyl. More than 100.000 people have been evacuated from there, but some have remained or returned. "Pripyat" follows four protagonists who live or work in this zone.
- DirectorJirí StejskalThis picturesque Ukrainian farm is not surrounded by fields, but by huge housing developments. Ominous cranes overlook Natasha's land at the edge of Kiev, which year after year is being pushed deeper into a pit by new panel buildings. The brave owner protects not only acres of land, but also traditional family values, faith and ownership. From a bird's-eye view of the farm, a sharp contrast emerges between the village and the city. This peculiar family business model is set forth in a four-year chronicle from the point of view of foreign visitors who don't interfere with the way of life that the family has lived for generations.