screen names

Sergey Eisenstein

03/14/2007

Most probably in Sergey Eisenstein’s silent classic called “Battleship Potemkin”. It’s a long time ago since the film has become the world cinema classics and gained its glory as the first “coloured” film in history. However, there was only one element in the film that was coloured - the red revolutionary flag. The film director coloured it himself with the special paint.  

Sergey Paradjanov

03/14/2007

The world fame showered at Sergey Paradjanov after screening in 1964 the film ‘Tini zabutykh predkiv’ (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors), the adaptation of renowned Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's novel. This romantic ode to unique Hutsul highlanders’ culture has won awards at international film festivals in Italy, Argentina, and Greece.  

Oles Sanin. Making Ukraine fashionable

02/15/2005

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in early 90’s the Ukrainian film industry saw the hardest times. Today, however, there are clear signs of a new system of film industry slowly taking shape in Ukraine and a new generation of filmmakers coming to the scene. Young but already acclaimed Ukrainian filmmaker Oles Sanin is among them – in the front line.   

Olexander Dovzhenko. Controversial film director

03/14/2007

The best Ukrainian silent motion pictures were Olexander Dovzhenko's three films, which won him the reputation as 'the first poet of cinema' – ‘Zvenyhora’, ‘Arsenal’, and particularly ‘Zemlia’ (The Earth, 1930). In 1968 an international jury included ‘Zemlia’ among the 12 best films in world cinematography. However, he has been regretfully still one of the most neglected major filmmakers of the 20th century, who has never come close to receiving his due.