Volodymyr Lisovskyi
Biography: Volodymyr Lisovskyi was a Ukrainian theatre and film actor. Active in films 1924 - 1940. In the early 1920s - actor of the Odesa State Drama Theater, In 1924-1925 - actor of the Kharkiv Drama Theater after Ivan Franko. After world war two - After the war - an actor of the State Theater in Brest.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1894
Deathday: N/A
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Taras Shevchenko
1926-01-01
Taras Shevchenko
Overview: The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. At that time, it was one of the most expensive films, as for the first time experts in history, ethnography, and literary studies were involved in pre-production. The famous Modernism artist, academician Vasyl Kryvhevskyi designed the film, and professor Serhii Yefremov served as a consultant. Consisting of numerous short stories, the film that shows the life of Shevchenko as an adolescent, a soldier, a poet, was successfully demonstrated in Ukraine and abroad and became the most acknowledged cinema project of 1926. Amvrosii Buchma played Taras Shevchenko.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Mykola Dzheria
1927-04-01
Mykola Dzheria
Overview: Freedom-loving Mykola Dzheria goes away from the village because of poverty and villainage. He leaves his senior parents, his young wife Nemydora and escapes to the sugar-mill. His friend dies because of slave work. Mykola goes to the Dniester reed beds. Working with other escapees, Mykola falls in love with the daughter of the cooperative leader. The girl also likes the handsome guy. However, their fate is decided by the landlord’s servants; they set the reed beds on fire, shackle Mykola and take him to Verbivka. The film was released on 01 April 1927 in Kyiv and on 24 May 1928 in Moscow. The film is lost.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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Prometey
1936-02-04
Prometey
Overview: The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill fame. In the troops an ordinary peasant gets acquainted with an ideological revolutionary and becomes inspired with the feeling of inequity to the existing social structure. And when the time comes to return to the native village, he will make the sir pays by his blood for all wrong-doings against the peasants. A film based on works and biography of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861).
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1936-02-04
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Suburban Districts
1930-06-20
Suburban Districts
Overview: In the late 1920s Jewish girl Dora falls in love with a young Russian Komsomol member. His parents,who are captive to religious superstitions, don't like Dora. She still goes to live with him and will find herself facing those superstitions in her husband home too.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1930-06-20
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Black Sea Mutiny
1930-08-23
Black Sea Mutiny
Overview: On the proletarian solidarity of the French navy with the revolutionary people of Russia. The action takes place in the early years of Soviet power in the coastal city of Russia. The French cruiser Mirabeau threatens the city from the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1930-08-23
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Life in Your Hands
1930-12-31
Life in Your Hands
Overview: The cursed legacy for the young state are drunkards and truants, who have not yet rebuilt their lives in the new social conditions. But life is changing: the inhabitants of the commune dormitory, a huge, cubist-style house, “orderly” run in the morning for exercise, eat in the canteen, which resembles a factory conveyor belt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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Love's Berries
1926-04-28
Love's Berries
Overview: Jean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of the cumbersome 'article'. And, take his word for it, all the ways are good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1926-04-28
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Intrigan
1935-07-01
Intrigan
Overview: The cadet Vasya Yarochkin and his girlfriend Olya attempt to catch an escaped stallion named "Intriguer".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1935-07-01
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The Little Shoes
1928-02-13
The Little Shoes
Overview: To justify the fantastic adventures of the blacksmith Vakula, the authors of the film “simplify” Gogol’s plot: Vakula, having drunk too much at Patsiuk’s place, falls asleep. And he sees this dream where the devil takes him to the palace of Catherine II in Saint-Petersburg; and there Vakula takes off the little shoes of the Russian empress to give them to his fiancée Oksana. And, really, drunk Vakula takes off the shoes while sleeping… but from Patsiuk. Later, when Vakula unwraps the package with the “royal slippers” in front of Oksana, he finds only Patsiuk’s dirty shoes there.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: uk
Release Date: 1928-02-13
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