Mykhailo Illienko
1947 (79 лет)The White Bird Marked with Black
Yuri Ilyenko
Ivan Mykolaichuk, Yuri Mikolaichuk
A family struggles to survive in an area that was claimed as part of Rumania, Poland and the Ukraine, all within a short span of time. When World War II comes, various family members choose different masters; some even choose to work for the Soviets. War, struggle, marriages, births, deaths--all these events punctuate the story of this large family.
The White Bird Marked with Black
Фучжоу
Mykhailo Illienko
Taras Denisenko, Ivanna Illienko
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 States become clearly visible.
Fuchzhou
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Mykhailo Illienko
Bohdan Beniuk, Nikolay Grinko
Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich', 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt'.
Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants
Toloka
Mykhailo Illienko
Ivanna Illienko, Dmytro Linartovych
There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.
Toloka
Сьомий маршрут
Mykhailo Illienko
Yurii Yevsiukov, Victoria Malektorovych
The film takes place in Kiev 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.
The Seventh Route
