Lyudmyla Sosyura

Yurka's Sunrises

A story about the working life of rural youth in the 1970s. About the conflict between young specialist Yuri Khmel and the chairman of the collective farm, and his young wife Zhenya with her mother-in-law.

Altunin Makes a Decision

A film novel about a production manager who used to be a worker at a machine-building plant's forge.

Provincial Anecdote

The driver and the forwarder, who came on a business trip, drank everything they had and the next morning they went to ask passers-by for money. There was a kind person who gave them a large sum, but instead of gratitude, the drunkards interrogated the donor with bias...

Collapse

1986, Chornobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.

It All Starts With Love

The tenth graders decided to spend their last summer vacation together in a labor camp. The boys not only had a great time, but also taught their bosses a good lesson in hard work, careful handling of tools, and most importantly, honesty, and weaned their foremen off of padding for a long time.

Peace to the Huts, War to the Palaces

A Soviet propaganda miniseries about the Bolshevik coup in 1917-18. Along with the portrayal of fictional characters, the film recreates the images of historical figures from this period.

Weeds

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 helps them.

It won't take a year...

Pyotr Ivanovich, an experienced site foreman, was urged for a long time to take the position of chief engineer of the trust. They finally talked him into it. But a year later he returned to his construction site, half-jokingly insisting that a foreman is not a position, but a profession.

Story of Our Days

The First Lad

A gem from Paradjanov's early oeuvre is a musical agitation film or a romantic comedy, made by the young director under the guidance of Alexander Dovzhenko and set in the immense fields of the collectivised Ukraine. The social realism is replaced by colourful, convivial and dancing shots of the “Pabieda” (Victory) kolkhoz, where peasant women sing in the fields, and boys march with banners glorifying revolution. Against this backdrop, intense romantic feelings have reached a climactic stage; tailor Sidor Sidorovich, farmer Jushka and soldier Danila Petrovich all dote on the fair-haired Odarka. It is Jushka and Danila who engage in overt hostility; the initial “gentlemen’s” contest turns into an outright confrontation, resulting in miserable Jushka being increasingly more desperate and scorned by the villagers.

Good Intentions

Young Nadezhda after graduating college starts working in the orphanage.

F-Mark 'with deceit'

A story about six-graders competing with another classes for a school championship.

Soldier Girl

Festive Kyiv meets victorious warriors. Among the noise and fun, Irina Gaeva feels especially lonely. No one is waiting for her, no one meets her at the station. All her family and friends died during the war. Confused, overwhelmed by grief, Irina decides to go to the village, in the battles for which her husband died.

Grooms

Today and Tomorrow

The film raises environmental issues and examines the nature of the relationship between the manager and the team.