Mikhail Golubovich

The Traitor (2018)

1971, Odesa Film Studio. The KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of just finished movie about the events of Ukraine's 1920s "civil war" of a young director in line with the Party's view on the historical events. This re-editing work is entrusted to a young ...

Hetman (2015)

Artistic portrayal of the difficult personality of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and his dramatic life against the backdrop of National-liberation war in the mid-17th century and the Cossack state building. The main storyline shows Khmelnytsky not only as hetman and ...

Brothel Lights (2011)

In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out. ...

Love. Full Stop (2011)

A romantic story with elements of humor and dramatic moments that occurs within a few days on a yacht in the middle of the Black Sea. Fatal meeting of two opposites - rough hunter, who does not give their victims no chance, and defenseless victim who wants ...

Thought about Taras Bulba (2009)

A screen adaptation of the famous work of N. Gogol with creative processing of the original text in the style of Ukrainization. The film shows the flavor of the Cossack era, reveals the psychological traits of the Cossacks. A budgetary answer to Bortko's f ...

The Song of Taras Bulba (2008)

An adaptation of the famous work by Nikolai Gogol. The film shows the flavor of the Cossack era, reveals the psychological traits of the Cossacks. A budgetary answer to Bortko's film. ...

Quiet Flows The Don (2006)

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekh ...

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 ...

The Way to Sich (1994)

At the beginning of the XVII century, events take place preceding the liberation struggle led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. A young boy Pavlo Pokhylenko leaves his native Kaniv to join the Zaporizhian Sich (camp and cossack army) to fight for freedom and the Orth ...

The Children of Iron Gods (1993)

The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly subhuman. T ...

Luna Park (1992)

Andrei is the head of a gang of antisemitic skinheads clinging to the old communist ideals in post-Communist Moscow. When he learns that his long lost father actually is a Jewish bohemian living in Moscow, rather than an Afghanistan war hero, he traces him ...

Jews, Cheers! (1992)

A superliner carrying millionaires crashed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Only a few people were saved. They swim on a raft and listen to humorous fables about friendship between Ukrainians and Jews told by a Hasid. ...

Cherry Nights (1992)

The love story of the NKVD lieutenant and the connected UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) on the eve of the end of World War II is a conflict of love and duty. There is a third hero in this story - this is an indifferent employee of the NKVD. For many years, ...

Cossacks Approaching (1991)

Ukraine. The end of the XV century. All gunpowder made in factories suddenly disappears. The company of cossacks led by Maksym Trytuz comes together to find one of the transports that carries gunpowder to the Zaporozhian Sich. ...

Aurora Borealis (1990)

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s. ...

Vladimir Dubrovsky: The Noble Robber (1990)

A young master, Vladimir Dubrovsky, comes to the estate to visit his father, who has long been in litigation with his neighbor, the despotic landowner Troekurov. Having seriously insulted Dubrovsky Sr., Troekurov tries to go to peace, but the proud old man ...

The Wild One (1990)

The story of the dramatic life of folk artist Kateryna Bilokur, who sacrificed the love for her calling. ...

Coast Warning (1988)

A natural disaster is approaching the city—weather forecasters report that a hurricane is coming. In this extreme situation, the complete incompetence of the people who are duty-bound to do everything possible to save the city from destruction has become ...

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 ...

Insult (1987)

The saleswoman of the village store Pasha Nikitina generously distributed all the money from the proceeds to the villagers in debt, when they were left without a salary through the fault of the Chairman. The audit appeared suddenly — and Pasha began to d ...

Accelerate (1987)

Young girl is dreaming to become a cop - so she starts her own investigation into a group of car thieves. ...

Farewell, Punks of Zamoskvorechye... (1987)

Moscow outskirts, spring 1956. In memory and soul of the sixteen-year-old hero of the movie, the son of the political prisoner, this time will remain forever. He meets and loses his first love, encounters with blunt brutality of the criminal world, to bid ...

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. ...

Dear, Beloved Mother... (1986)

At the age of 18, Tatiana married Maxim, a widower, and became the mother of his three children. But soon her husband dies at the hands of bandits, and her relatives, seeking to take over the household, throw her out of the house. Some time later Tatiana m ...

Dictatorship (1985)

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 h ...

The Shore (1984)

A former Soviet officer returns to Germany forty years after WWII... ...

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 ...

Still Waters are Deep (1984)

At the site where Mikhail Sveshnev was working, the roof collapsed, crushing one of the miners. At the risk of his life, Mikhail saved his comrade, but the foreman lied to Sveshnev and blamed him for the accident. The commission identified the true culprit ...

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 ...

High Pass (1982)

World War II scattered the Carpathian peasant family of Yaroslava Petrin. She is a dedicated communist, and her husband, son and daughter support OUN-UPA. ...

Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase (1981)

The film is set during World War II. After capturing the "trophy" Mercedes, a group of scouts, disguised as German officers commits a daring raid behind enemy lines (the 116th Motorized Division) on roads controlled by the enemy. ...

The Long Road Through the Maze (1981)

The protagonists of the film, chekists Sasha Sizov and Ivan Shagin, take the confiscated jewels out of the city captured by the White Guards and deliver them to Kiev. Having returned to the city liberated by the Red Army, they expose a White Guard agent wh ...

Pursuit Race (1979)

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse. But once his fellow-villager perishes in a forest. And Chekmenev, considering himself to be the one to blame, in expectation of an imminent retr ...

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

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

Lone Wolf (1977)

Based on one of Turgenev's Hunter's Sketches: the Lone Wolf of the title is a forest caretaker for a flippant aristocrat. Though he lives in absolute misery in a hut deep in the woods with two small children to take care of, he's feared for his merciless s ...

One Night Only (1977)

A story of a crime which was committed and solved during one night only. ...

At the World's Limit (1976)

Mustang Pacer (1976)

Cowboys try to catch a mustang known for its speed and intelligence, but all attempts fail. ...

The Cutlass (1974)

A Red Army officer Polevoy possesses a navy dirk with a secret message encrypted in its handle. The second part of a message belongs to a White army officer Nikitskiy. It's up to three young friends of Polevoy to uncover the mystery. ...

Wedding (1973)

Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia. ...

How the Steel Was Tempered (1973)

The path of a young revolutionary during the formation of Soviet power during the Bolshevik coup. ...

The Lost Letter (1972)

Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg. ...

The Commissars (1971)

This ideologically charged film as a typical sample of Soviet version of history portrays the events in Ukraine in 1921 after the defeat of Ukrainian liberation struggle and the occupation of the country by invading Bolshevik hordes. The Bolsheviks are goo ...

Prisoners of Beaumont (1971)

Soviet intelligence officer Kraft has a new assignment. This time, acting under the name of engineer Grubbe, he must find and transfer to the center the secret drawings of a new submarine codenamed "Walter". ...

Red Snowstorm (1971)

And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning (1971)

A drama based on Boris Lavrenev's play "The Rift", telling about the participation of Baltic Fleet sailors in the Bolshevik coup of 1917. ...

Jews, Cheers! (1992)

A superliner carrying millionaires crashed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Only a few people were saved. They swim on a raft and listen to humorous fables about friendship between Ukrainians and Jews told by a Hasid. ...