Valentin Silvestrov

A Cherry Orchard (2022)

Short animated musical performance of a work by Valentin Silvestrov based on Taras Shevchenko's verses, combined with animation of each line of the poem by different young directors. ...

A Woman (2022)

Juliane, a police commissioner in Paris, is a woman with great moral integrity. But when she discovers her husband's double life, she starts committing acts she never would have thought herself capable of. ...

Two in One (2007)

This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurk ...

The Tuner (2005)

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them. ...

Notre Musique (2004)

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself. ...

Untouched by the West (2003)

Loosely based on Diégo Brosset's novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by some hunters and becomes a highly respected guide while trying to escape colonization. ...

Chekhovian Motifs (2002)

The film is based on A. P. Chekhov's play "Tatiana Repina" and short story "Difficult People". At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide. ...

Garden of Gethsemane (1993)

Based on a novel by Ivan Bahryanyi. About the terrible years of repression in Ukraine in the 1930s. ...

Valentin Silvestrov. Quiet Songs (1993)

Hryhoriy Havrylenko. The Bright Figure (1988)

A documentary about Hryhoriy Havrylenko. After watching the film, Yuriy Illienko told the film's cameraman Volodymyr Pika: "Man, this is brilliant!". ...

Approaching the Future (1986)

The hero of the film, academician Sergei Vasilyevich Lunin, director of the Kiev Research Institute of Informatics, is working on the implementation of the Unity project in the enterprises of a single department. According to his calculations, this global ...

The Rooks (1984)

Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independent person, who is allowed everything, Victor wants to see his younger brother Shurka as well. And he, obeying the authority of Victor, becomes an involuntary ...

No Great Loss... (1983)

Six people get stuck in a lift. No one comes to help them, as the dispatcher who shut down the lift and all the neighbours are passionately watching a football match being broadcast. At first, the characters in the film fight, but when the lift doors open, ...

Punchy Man (1980)

The new young director of the car depot shows energy and the ability to come to an agreement with everyone for the common good, but his principle "you - for me, I - for you" has not yet been approved by the car depot team... ...

Getting to Know the Big Wide World (1978)

On a rough and tumble construction site for a new factory, the conversation flows and love blooms for trio Lyuba, Misha, and Kolya. In the liminal space of their workplace, they build material and intangible connections. ...

White Clouds (1968)

A man is notified of his father's imminent death. He travels to his father in a remote Ukrainian village, recalling his childhood during the disastrous forced collectivization and artificial famine (Holodomor) of the 1930s by the Soviet regime. The film wa ...

Quarantine (1968)

During an experiment, an accident occurs at the Institute of Epidemiology. To prevent the virus of a deadly disease from penetrating the walls of the laboratory, five employees remain in quarantine. In this situation, people reveal themselves in the most u ...

V. Silvestrov (2022)

There is a rumor in the Kyiv musical community: once upon a time, in private conversation, Queen Elizabeth II mentioned Valentyn Silvestrov as one of her favorite composers of the modern age. The Royal Press Office hasn't confirmed it, so no one knows for ...

Valentin Silvestrov. Quiet Songs (1993)