Ivan Kavaleridze
1887 - 1978Перекоп
Ivan Kavaleridze
Stepan Shagaida, Semyon Svashenko
This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.
Perekop
Наталка Полтавка
Ivan Kavaleridze
Ekaterina Osmyalovskaya, M. Platonov
This film is the first adaptation of an operetta written by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko. It follows the trials and tribulations of Natalka and Peter (Petro). The sweethearts planned to get married; however, Natalka's father does not approve of the marriage because Petro was not affluent enough to keep Natalka in the manner he thought that she should be kept. Petro goes off to earn the required fortune.
Natalka Poltavka
Коліївщина
Ivan Kavaleridze
Aleksandr Serdyuk, Ivan Maryanenko
The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.
The Czarina Commands
Григорий Сковорода
Ivan Kavaleridze
Aleksandr Gaj, Nikolai Kozlenko
It is a life story of one of the most famous Ukrainians and certainly a faithful servant of his nation, of Hryhorii Skovoroda. Neither promises, nor suggestion of high ranks, nor flattery, could shake his fidelity to his ideals. A wandering philosopher, who loved Ukraine with all his heart, he left an eternal trace in its history and culture.
Hryhorii Skovoroda
