Ihor Savchenko

Taras Shevchenko (1951)

Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko ar ...

The Third Blow (1948)

On April 1944, Joseph Stalin orders the Red Army to liberate the Crimea from the German occupiers. The Wehrmacht's local commanders beg Hitler to allow them to retreat from the vulnerable position, but he refuses. After a fierce battle, the Soviet forces d ...

The Lucky Bride (1946)

After the victory on Napoleon a hussar returns to Moscow. He is met by a desperate man who offers him a deal: marry his daughter before she turns 18 and inherit a huge fortune from her rich, eccentric aunt. There is also another condition... ...

Military Secret (1945)

The Second World War. A new L-2 heavy duty gun is being supplied to the Soviet Army. German intelligence needs to seize a new secret weapon. ...

Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor (1944)

The story takes place in Summer 1942, when a small force of Black Sea Fleet sailors was surrounded by German troops but broke out the encirclement. ...

Guerrillas in the steppes of Ukraine (1943)

The film tells about the heroic struggle of Ukrainian farmers-partisans with nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic war. ...

Teacher Kartashova (1943)

About child partisans of the Great Patriotic War. ...

Young Partisans (1942)

This is a two-in-one flashback film in which the flashback ends up teaching a group of kids a heroic lesson that they take to heart when war comes to their doorstep. ...

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (1941)

648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytskyi gathers the army of defenders of the motherland. ...

High Award (1939)

Guerrilla Brigade (1939)

Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of Ukraine in 1918 during World War 1, and made as an example of the guerrilla warfare and fierce spirit in which Ukrainian peasants were again resisting Teuton onslaughts in 1939. Highlights a small ...

The Ballad of Cossack Golota (1937)

The story of three young Russsian adventurers against the background of post-revolutionary skirmishes in the Ukraine. The boys get mixed up with a wounded commissar and a marauding White Russian officer. They find themselves in all sorts of predicaments be ...

Accidental Meeting (1936)

A supposedly ordinary woman's personal triumph and tragedy is explored in Igor Savchenko's 1936 Sluchainaya Vstrecha (Accidental Meeting). Irina – the best shock worker in a provincial children's factory – develops a relationship with the newly arr ...

Accordion (1934)

Igor Savchenko's Accordion (Garmon', 1934) was adapted from a poem by A. Zharov. This film sheds light on the reasons why the mass song came into being. In it, the country boy Timosha stops playing the accordion after being chosen leader of the local Komso ...

People without Hands (1932)

Accordion (1934)

Igor Savchenko's Accordion (Garmon', 1934) was adapted from a poem by A. Zharov. This film sheds light on the reasons why the mass song came into being. In it, the country boy Timosha stops playing the accordion after being chosen leader of the local Komso ...

26 Commissioners (1933)

Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint. ...