Valentin Chernyak

Exile (1992)

Based on an authentic story, and in the pure tradition of Soviet cinema, the tragic fate of a family of Polish Jews during World War II. ...

Balcony (1988)

A surgeon identifies his patient as his childhood neighbor, and remembers their life in Alma-Ata in the fifties. Then they grew in a period of ending Stalinism, among adults who were both coward and brave. He's dreaming about the balcony, which was their r ...

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 ...

In the Forests Near Kovel (1984)

Klymko (1983)

Village boy Klimko, accompanying his father to the front, stays with his stepmother. In the occupied village, the hero cannot see his friends. Having survived hunger, injuries and loneliness, the boy enters a vocational school - nine kilometers from the vi ...

Destiny (1977)

A war comes to the life of the heroes of "Earthy Love" (1975). ...

Earthy Love (1975)

A life of a few people during the years before WWII before the events shown in "Destiny" (1977). ...

White Circle (1974)

About the struggle of steelworkers and residents of the city of Mariupol against the German fascist invaders during World War II. ...

Trust (1972)

Problems of modern villages and economic use of land. ...

Volchiy Island (1970)

The year is 1962. Returning after an important mission, the polar aviation pilot Tagilov saves a young woman, Tatyana, who is stranded on a chipped ice floe. She is a doctor. ...

The Scouts (1968)

WWII, 1945. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instr ...

Weeds (1966)

David Motuzka, demobilized Red Army soldier, returns to his native village, hoping to see the changes caused by the revolutionary events. But he cannot see no improvement. The village is ruled by the kulaks and David's childhood friend Kornii Matiukha help ...

Fury (1966)

Hearing about the revolution in the hospital, the sailor Gulyavin goes to Petrograd, and from there with a detachment of Ukrainian volunteers he is sent to Ukraine. The troop is joined by cavalrymen under the command of the anarchist Lelka. The chief of st ...

A Bag Full of Hearts (1964)

Many years brings the collective-farm postman Arina post to home folks. This village in one corner is calledl; Chistuy Kolodets; in other ; Chistaya Krinitsa Russians and Ukrainians live there. Arina's stories about village people and the contemporaries cr ...

Gas Station Queen (1963)

Lyudmila doesn't have any luck in finding the perfect job. She tried to be an air hostess, newscaster, model, ice skater, but fate had something else in store for her - a petrol station, where her incredible positivity and fiery personality charm everyone ...

Street of the Youngest Son (1962)

Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)

English-dubbed and re-edited version of the 1959 Soviet film Nebo Zovyot. Acquired by Roger Corman and reworked by a young Francis Ford Coppola, the film relocates its Cold War "space race" to a fictional future where rival nations—North Hemis and South ...

The Sky Calls (1959)

This movie follows the crew of the spaceship Homeland, preparing for the first manned mission to Mars. When an American ship, Typhoon, rushes to beat them and suffers a critical malfunction, the Soviets divert their mission to attempt a rescue. Stranded on ...

Bloody Dawn (1957)

Adaptation of Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi's novel "Fata Morgana", film debut of Ada Rogovtseva. 1905. The peasant Marko Hrusha returns to his native village and leads a struggle against the landlords for land. He is arrested but later released. After his relea ...