In the remote Ukrainian village of Dikanka, handsome but poor Vakula loves the beautiful Oxana, but she's holding out for a wealthy prince, and her father doesn't think much of him either. On Christmas Eve she sends him on a ridiculous quest for dancing shoes that takes him all the way to the imperial palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with the help of some odd characters from the village and the Devil himself.
About the adventures of a little girl Mariyka in a magical forest.
Oksana (played by Sofia Rotaru) is a young and beautiful Carpathian girl. On the "Donetsk-Verkhovyna" train she becomes acquainted with a young miner from Donetsk called Boris. The travellers fall in love, but are parted when they arrive at their destination. In the Carpathian mountains their paths diverge, but Boris (played by Vasyl Zinkevych, soloist of the instrumental band "Smerichka") discovers where she is staying. The couple meet again and rekindle their love. Their friends invite them to perform in a concert for vacationers at a mountain resort, where they sing about their feelings for each other.
Based on the novel of the same name by Yuri Smolich about the struggle of young people to establish Soviet power in Ukraine.
The TV series is devoted to the topic of the artist's responsibility for every word he writes. In the center of the plot is the wandering of an artist-journalist of a Kyiv newspaper. He faces a number of internal problems: how to get along in a big city, the existence of true love and finding the answer to the eternal question - "Who am I?" External events echo the psychological crisis of the main character. In search of himself, he travels to the villages of the Kherson region that were flooded to create reservoirs - somewhere under the water column is his parents' native village, a metaphor for Ukrainian culture and historical memory mutilated in the 20th century. The man's concerns are closely related to the surrounding world: the atmosphere of the film reproduces the confusion of the entire nation: "What will happen next, after communism and its ideology?" In the yard, everything points to the imminent collapse of the perestroika.
Four friends go to an amusement park, where they discover an unusual attraction that works like a time machine and takes everyone back in time to the scenes of old vaudeville shows...
The last days of the Great Patriotic War take place in a military hospital.
A story about the feat of an unusual military unit - a brass band that took part in the heroic defense of Sevastopol.
At first playfully, and then seriously, the heroine falls in love with her friend's husband, who fights for social justice. Then there will be an arrest, exhausting interrogations of a police officer fascinated by her, involvement in the death of her lover. And that's not all...
Anna and Michailo grow up together, attracted to each other since their earliest days. When Anna's father dies, her brothers force her into marriage with the mean farmer Mikola. After years of absence, Michailo comes home, to get her back.
An iconic Ukrainian play of the same name meets TV.
Follows the grandson minds his own business, forgetting about his grandmother.
Yesterday's schoolgirl has a cherished dream - to devote her life to the sea. But she is not accepted into the nautical school. Then she, with the help of her friends, secretly enters the training ship "Comrade" and, together with all the cadets, undergoes practical training at sea.
Television production of the play "Dictatorship" by Ukrainian playwright Ivan Mykytenko, who was repressive in the 1930s. The theme of the film was the tragic fate of the people deceived by the government - a peasant who was robbed to the last grain and his strength was destroyed.
Based on the play of the same name by Mykola Kulish. The film is set in the 1920s and tells of a brief period of "introduction" of the Ukrainian language (Ukrainization). This is the story of one crazy person living in the same crazy world.
Detective Hall Jefferies, who suffered an injury, is forced to sit in a chair all day and look out the window out of boredom. After a while, Jeffries studied well all the neighbors in the house opposite, their behavior and habits. Changes in the life of a man living with his sick wife led him to think about murder. The woman disappeared, but no one saw her leave the house…
Having been released from prison, where he was imprisoned for making “fufales” (copies of paintings), the guy decides to start an honest life. But the mafia does not want to lose a good specialist and introduces him to a dancer from a night cabaret...
