Taras Denysenko

Taras Denysenko

Birth : 1965-03-23, Kiev, USSR [now Ukraine]

Death : 2017-11-07

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Taras Denysenko

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Between the Frames
Between the Frames is the story of an exceptional relationship between a teacher and a young generation of actors brought up in his creative workshop. Five years after graduation from university, the main characters return to see themselves from the side and try to catch what is happening between the frames. The story is told by ex-students while they are watching behind-the-scenes archives of their student performance The Cabaret and reflecting upon the years that have passed. In the center of the story stands a teacher as a life-turning figure for each of the characters.
Poor People
Andriy lives in a God-forsaken village with his paralyzed wife. He takes care of her every day, but at the same time he makes a coffin for her and arranges a wake.
The Guide
Folklorist
American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.
Business as Usual
Tolik
Forty years old is a perfect age to change ones life. The hero makes a decision to quit the psychotherapist's cabinet, which he is sick and tired of and become a poet. To become a freelance artist. A trifle remained to cope with to persuade the wife.
How the Cossacks Flew to Space
Sasha has a house in Blahodatne village and a loving textbook wife. The second baby is on the way. They are paying out the loan for a big fridge and they dream to save some money for a gas boiler. In the distant future they plan to buy a low cost car and travel to Crimea. To bring those modest dreams to life Sasha had to develop a sophisticated illegal fraud scheme. Accidentally, Sasha’s scheme is revealed. Looks like travel to Crimea is going to be postponed.
Hamburg
Ihor wanted to move to America for all his adult life. To Europe, at worst. But his dream was destined to come true only partially – it’s his kidney that moves abroad… His own wife persuades Ihor to sell his organ to Hamburg. Operation will be held illegally and there’s no guarantee that he’ll be given all of the promised money. But the advance is already paid. His wife seems to be satisfied. Now she’s got a new handbag.
Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky
Stanislav Morozenko
Film tells the story of one of the most difficult and tragic moments of the liberation war of Ukrainian people against the rule of Poland (1648 - 1657 years) - Battle of Zbarazh.
Shoes from America
Isaac Berg is the only Jew in a small town who miraculously survived during the german occupation. The old man is haunted by one idea - he decided to raise the gravestones with which the nazis paved the road and take them to where his loved ones were killed.
The Seventh Route
Writer
The film takes place in Kiev during the day. Daniel Pritulyak is serving foreigners as guide, who invents a route for the Americans on the life of an obscure but talented poet Danila Pritulyak.
Judenkreis: The Eternal Wheel
A completely true story about how a real. live Don Juan comes to a Bukovynsky border town and what happens as a result. In the center 01 the story is the Ukrainian maiden Marichka’s love, which takes place against the background of numerous coup d‘etats during the Second World War.
Island Of Love
The series consists of ten films based on love and erotic works of Ukrainian literature from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. The films explore love as a multidimensional phenomenon. This is a kind of retrospective slice of the history of society, culture, and art. There are changes in the attitude towards a woman, mother, lover.
Life will go on!
Protagonist dies and goes to the afterlife, weirdly similar to Soviet sanatorium. He finds friends and love interest there, but farewell is soon - doctors are going to resuscitate him
Fuchzhou
Orest
The action is set at the start of the twentieth century, between a village by the River Dnyepr and the coast of Florida. While the story has ironic, romantic and sometimes mystic angles, the bitter aspects of emigration from the Ukraine to the United States become clearly visible.
Personal Weapon
Sergeev
The murder of an ordinary policeman happened in a provincial town Limansk. Police officer Lyubov Virtanen comes from Moscow to investigate the crime. Her appearance is troubling the local authorities.
Oxygen Starvation
Soviet army was one the worst for human dignity places to be. The task of the army was to turn freethinkers into normal dumb Soviet people. An intelligent Ukrainian guy refuses to obey.
Miracle in the Land of Oblivion
In a small Ukrainian village a rumor begins to circulate that the Second Coming is nigh and that the Messiah is already somewhere in the region.
Караул
Young soldiers of the Soviet Internal Troops are brutally bullied during their time of Dedovshchina(hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.
High Pass
Yurko
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.