
Iya Marks
2021When the Trees Were Tall
Lev Kulidzhanov
Inna Gulaya, Yuriy Nikulin
The story of a man who routinely dodges all responsibility, bemoans fate, spends his days boozing, and refuses to work. The act of playing long-lost father to a pretty teenager spurs him to turn over a new leaf.
When the Trees Were Tall
The Enchanted Desna
Yuliya Solntseva
Evgeniy Samoylov, Volodymyr Honcharov
Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.
The Enchanted Desna
The Unforgettable
Yuliya Solntseva
Evgeniy Bondarenko, Yuri Fisenko
About hardships of the first years of War, which fell to the lot of ordinary people in Ukraine, who got under the yoke of fascist occupation, and heroic struggle against the invaders. A young Russian woman asks a Red Army soldier to spend the night with her in the wake of the Nazi invasion. Fearing she may soon perish, the woman hopes for one night of romance before what could be a horrible demise.
The Unforgettable