Movies: Dovzhenko Film Studios

'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, He...

Melodrama about the mass shooting of Ukrainian Jewry at Babi Yar in Kyiv during the Second World War....

A young millionaire Francis Morgan along with his distant cousin, a cowboy Henry Morgan and Henry's bride Leoncia are searching for the Maya treasures....

The action is set at the start of the twentieth century, between a village by the River Dnyepr and the coast of Florida. While the story has ironic, romantic and sometimes mystic angles, the bitter aspects of emigration from the Ukraine to the United...

Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on ...

A story of two brothers who leave rural Polesiya to seek a better life in Kyiv. One of them quickly finds himself atop the wheel of fortune and the other -- at its bottom. The first brother dies mysteriously and the second brother attempts to take ov...

A meeting with a girl, who was a secretary of the "new Ukrainians", leads the hero to companies involved in illegal business. As a result, he is caught between the mafia, the police and hired assassins....

Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police....

Kyiv in the nineties, tainted by a serious economic collapse and rising crime. A group of kids boost the family budget by washing cars at a gas station whose proprietors make a living in a rather dodgy way. The story is narrated by the 13-year-old pr...

A modest girl, Nastya, who recently came to one of the largest silk factories in Ukraine, fell in love with the foreman and motorcycle racer Gnat Kolyada. After leaving the beautiful Hannah, Gnat proposes to Nastya — and soon the brigade celebrates t...

Film tells the story of one of the most difficult and tragic moments of the liberation war of Ukrainian people against the rule of Poland (1648 - 1657 years) - Battle of Zbarazh....

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The film takes place in Kyiv during the day. Daniel Pritulyak is serving foreigners as guide, who invents a route for the Americans on the life of an obscure but talented poet Danila Pritulyak....

Once in the underpass at the Philharmonic, a singer Lyudmila hears a heavenly voice of a beggar-girl singing "Ave Maria" ......

The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice....

Another shipment of drugs arrives in Ukraine from Istanbul in a cargo of expensive carpets. The drug traffickers are closely followed by Interpol officers, whose goal is to uncover the entire chain of the criminal business. But it soon turns out that...

A simple-minded Ukrainian worker Levko inherits his uncle's flourishing mill business. The sudden and unexpected fortune consequently reveals Levko's furious crave for money. He starts with laying hands on the tavern of the missing Jew Yankel, who wa...

The film is based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Hryhurko. The story is about the difficult life of young mechanics working on an irrigation canal in the steppe. Each of them has his own problems: a long-standing enmity, a prison past, family ...

The mice people live in an enormous theatre, expectantly awaiting the ambiguous show by Josefina....

Tatyana’s husband left for the business trip. And right away the local ladies’ men begin to put the moves towards a young woman. At first she fights back, but under the pressure of good words and love-making she is ready to put up hands. But the husb...