Les Serdyuk

Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba (2009)

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies. ...

A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa (2003)

During an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power, Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russi ...

Казачья быль (1999)

Operation Contract (1996)

About events that took place on board of an international flight during a mafia showdown. ...

Operation Contract (1996)

A luxury cruise ship. Smugglers and saboteurs. And the experienced police chief, leading the operation to neutralize the criminals... ...

The Hetman's Jewels (1993)

The film takes place in 1659 when Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son Yuri took power from Hetman Vyhovsky. Supporters of Bohdan Khmelnytsky are trying to help his daughter Olena to save her father's regalia - the symbol of Hetman's power and independence of Ukraine. ...

Moon Cuckoo (1993)

Love strengthens and makes wiser Yulka, who has lost her way in life. She wants to make her own life on the outskirts of a big city. Shurka Kuksa and Kolya the fisherman help Yulka build a house in exchange for certain services. Kolya the fisherman is marr ...

American Boy (1992)

An orphan named Nikolay Najdenov went through the hell of the war in Afghanistan and the horrors of captivity. From now on he is a US citizen and his name is Nick McCann. In the US he has a family and new life, but in his country of birth, Ukraine, there a ...

Upside Down (1992)

A simple guy, Styopa, without suspecting it, brought with his car to a small town a gang of gangsters looking for a unique diamond. ...

The Birthday Present (1991)

Young revolutionary carried out the attack. She is waiting for a death sentence. Police warden who arrested girl, gives his little son a quite unusual birthday present - takes the boy to the execution. ...

Wild Field (1991)

Somehow, three came to these lands to the camp of ataman Sidor. One of them recently escaped from Turkish captivity, where from the centurion dying on his hands, he learned about a chest hidden in these places with the Ryazan treasury. The Cossacks, having ...

Tales about Ivan (1991)

The action takes place in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the First World War. The plot - twists and turns of life's journey of the traveler, adventurer, traveling actor and philosopher Ivan Kalita. ...

Ravines (1990)

Communist Ivan Platonov is actively involved in the collectivization of his native land, even the death of his wife does not stop him. One by one, rebellions of discontented peasants break out. Platonov's propaganda work takes on a different quality, the h ...

Ne Ostrelennaya Muzyka (1990)

История любви бывшего «афганца» к красивой, нежной и беспредельно искренней Оле. ...

Farther Than an Arrow's Flight (1990)

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, t ...

Seromanets (1989)

Old wolf Seromanets is the only surviving member of a pack hunted by humans. A young boy struggles to save the animal life. ...

The Watchmaker and the Chicken (1989)

In 1913, chance brings together a young high school teacher Yurkevich, his first love Lida, a wealthy landowner Lundyshev and a German watchmaker Karfunkel at a small railway station. Seven years later, in the early twenties, and then another seven years l ...

Tethered to the Runway (1989)

When a man cannot get a health certificate from a veterinary, he leaves his dog at the airport. Abandoned, the dog waits for her master, hoping to meet him off of every plane. ...

Ivan Mykolaichuk. Trizna (1989)

The first movie about the actor who became the creator and symbol of Ukrainian poetic cinema Ivan Mykolaichuk, released 2 years after his death. ...

Subjects of the Revolution (1988)

It is dedicated to the memory of Heinrich Zveinek, the first commissar of the Inzen Division, who died during the defense of Lugansk and was buried on Red Square. ...

Straw Bells (1987)

Vasyl Vilgota raised two sons. One of them died on the fronts of the Second World War, defending the homeland, and the second served as Hilfspolizei. Vilgota himself also helped the Nazis. Although he carefully hides this fact of his biography, there is on ...

While There is Time (1987)

The story of two Cossacks from Zaporizhzhya Sich, who had been taken as prisoners by the Turks, but were able to release themselves and get home. But it is going to be a long way and it is very unsafe, so the heroes will find many dangers and obstacles. ...

Handfuls (1987)

The film tells the story of the difficult and tragic fate of a Prykarpattia family over several generations. The events take place in the difficult 30s and 40s. Zhmeniak's father tries to gather more land in his possession by all means. But not everyone un ...

Vechernitsy (1986)

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... ...

Leutenant Nekrasov's Fault (1985)

In the last days of the war, a downed plane makes an emergency landing behind enemy lines. Nekrasov leaves the culprit of the disruption of the operation to the mercy of fate, for which he loses the rank of lieutenant and is suspended from flights. Returni ...

Sudden Release (1984)

The alarm sound of a siren broke the silence. There is an accident at the Gradovskaya mine! There are people down there! The miners who did not manage to get up were in danger. The mountain rescue team, led by Alexander Trigorin, went to the scene... ...

The Legend of Princess Olga (1984)

The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince ...

Overcoming (1984)

Ukraine, 1919. Bolshevik counter-intelligence agents work to stop an uprising by White Russian nationalist-monarchist counterrevolutionaries. A young countess finds herself caught between her family and class allegiance and burgeoning Communist sympathies ...

Such a Late, Such a Warm Autumn (1982)

The Bukovynian peasant Rusnak leaves the poor Bukovynian lands and goes to Canada with his little daughter Orysia - maybe he will be lucky there? And now Rusnak using the services of "Inturist" goes to his land where he was once happy. ...

Star Assignment (1982)

He did not understand how he got to this strange planet. You need to choose, because it turned out that there is also a certain alien, who in the same time appeared on Earth. But the peculiarity of the situation lies in the fact that between these characte ...

At the Devil's Lair (1981)

XVIII century. Moldova under Turkish yoke. The local nobility collaborates with the enslavers. Throughout the district in Moldova, the fame of a detachment of haiduks under the leadership of Gruya thundered, instilling fear in the lords and boyars. But Gru ...

From Bug to Vistula (1981)

The Soviet war film tells the story of the last raid by the Ukrainian partisan division named after S. A. Kovpak, led by P. P. Vershigora, into enemy territory in 1943-1944, its advance to the state border between the USSR and Poland, and its international ...

Meeting at High Snows (1981)

Juma Saidov fault of the rich Appanbay got to prison. Years later he returned to his native place and took part in the fight against robber bands. Suddenly it became clear that the leader of the gang Hudayberdi his son, born while Juma was in prison, and ...

Babylon XX (1980)

The new reality changes the usual life in the village of Babylon. Attempts to communize the small town are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance. Amidst the resistance philosopher Fabian ...

I Wait and Hope (1980)

1942 The Great Patriotic War is in full swing. The German command begins an intensified struggle with partisan detachments. One of these detachments, operating in Polissya, is surrounded by enemy troops. There is only one way out of this situation - it is ...

Natalka Poltavka (1978)

An iconic Ukrainian play of the same name meets TV. ...

Love and Fury (1978)

At the beginning of the First World War, Alexander Dragovich went to the front as a teenager. The October Revolution caught the hero in captivity in Russia. Like many of his countrymen, Alexander defected to the revolution. After becoming a chekist, Dragov ...

Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... (1978)

A third of a series of movies about Kovpak - the partisans chief during WWII. ...

I Am a Diver-2 (1976)

The action of the movie takes place on the Black Sea, where a team of brave divers are working. They are engaged in lifting sunken ships. The hero of the movie, the brigadier of divers Andrew, brave and uncompromising, calls himself "Diver-2", as the first ...

First Route, Last Route (1975)

Truck drivers traveling from Odessa to Tbilisi. The first one is an elderly man, this is his last trip before retirement. The second is a newcomer, who has sat behind the wheel for the first time... Different people meet on the way of the drivers, villages ...

Fire (1974)

About the 1930s—the early years of the Stakhanovite movement. The heroes of the film are steelworkers, who were among the first participants in the socialist competition. ...

The Applicant (1974)

After failing to get into college, Galya finished flight attendant training and started flying with navigator Viktor, who happened to witness her failures and supported her during difficult times. A year passed quickly, and she became a college student. Bu ...

Your Home Address (1973)

During the WWII, veteran Panas Petrovich Baida lost his son. Many years passed, and Panas Petrovich came to terms with his loss, hiding his grief deep in his heart. But one day, he heard news about children who had been saved by soldiers from the military. ...

Sea of Our Hope (1973)

A fire starts on board a foreign ship. Sailors of the Soviet merchant fleet come to the aid of those in distress in the ocean. ...

Night Motorcyclist (1972)

The investigation of a complex, complicated case of the murder of an engineer, a former prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp. The criminal, one of the executioners of this camp, did not escape retribution. ...

Inspector of Criminal Investigation (1971)

A detective investigating the robbery also tries to help young man to avoid criminal future. ...

Bread and Salt (1971)

A group of peasant farmers in turn-of-the-century Ukraine leaves home in search of better luck in Siberia. The story follows those who stay behind and their dispute with the landowner, as well as a love triangle involving a local beauty and two young men. ...

Front in the Neighborhood (1969)

Psychological novel about the love of Yakim and Anna, on whose path to happiness the war became a fatal obstacle. ...

The Kyiv Direction (1968)

Historical and military film about the exploits of fighters during Kyiv defense against the onset of the Nazi troops. In virtually hopeless situation soldiers fulfilled their duty to the end. Capture of Kyiv was the first Pyrrhic Hitler's victory that in t ...

Two Deaths (1967)

A film adaptation of the story of the same name by Aleksandr Serafimovich about the participation of young people in the revolution and civil war. ...

They Were Known Only By Their Faces (1967)

Explosions are raging in one of the ports in the territory occupied by the German fascist invaders. An old and experienced military leader, Admiral Reinhardt, arrives to investigate these emergencies. Together with the head of the Gestapo, SS Standartenfue ...