Mykola Kulchytskyi

Mykola Kulchytskyi

Birth : 1908-03-31, Subottsy, Kirovogradskaya oblast, Russian Empire

Death : 1992-09-23

History

Mykola Kulchytskyi (April 1, 1908 - September 24, 1992) was a Soviet and Ukrainian cinematographer. Awarded the title of Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1983). Held inventor's certificates that recognized his technological development of camera equipment and techniques.

Profile

Mykola Kulchytskyi

Movies

The Policemen and the Thieves
Assistant Camera
The Wheel of Love
Assistant Camera
A romantic comedy about a twenty three years old Kirill who suddenly decides to become a gigolo.
No Great Loss...
Director of Photography
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, they don't want to get out...
Женщины шутят всерьeз
Camera Operator
High Pass
Director of Photography
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.
Have You Seen Petka?
Director of Photography
The chairman of the collective farm, Yuri Sergeyevich, has no rest - and all because of the boys, whose main instigator is Petka, dreams of space flights are overwhelming. With his ideas, he gives a lot of trouble to adults, and they decide to entrust him with a "serious" business ...
Anna and Commander
Director of Photography
Researching for a script about a famous scientist who tragically passed away, a writer meets his wife Anna who's been struggling with the loss. A tale of the couple's life and love unfolds.
Абитуриентка
Camera Operator
Each Evening After Work
Director of Photography
School of working youth. A new teacher of Russian language and literature comes here. Soon, Yelena Nikolayevna realizes that it is impossible to make concessions to adult students who are tired after work, but you need to interest them, awaken in them a desire to learn.
Olesya
Camera Operator
Drama based on the book by Kuprin. A young man from the city falls in love with a girl from the country side. She is not accepted by the village community: people think she is a witch.
Annychka
Director of Photography
This film is a romantic story of love between a Hutsul girl and wounded Soviet guerrilla Andrii whom she rescues from certain death. The events unfold against the backdrop of WW2 presented with many obligatory falsehoods of the imperial Russian historiography: heroic Soviet guerrillas, poor and backward Hutsuls, rich Hutsuls betraying their own people and collaborating with the enemy, Ukrainians incapable of their own agency. Crude and mendacious as it is, this ideology is relegated to the narrative background, and the viewer's attention gets quickly captivated by the artistic fortes of the film: riveting stage presence of Kostiantyn Stepankov, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Boryslav Brondukov and the debuting Ivan Havryliuk; gorgeously atmospheric photography of Mykola Kulchytsky, beautiful faces, language, and dress of the Carpathian Ukrainians, and a faithful presentation of Hultsul folk culture devoid of typically condescending Soviet colonial slant.
Buryan
Cinematography
A Soviet film
The Weed
Director of Photography
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.
No Unknown Soldiers
Director of Photography
A story about a few days during the defense of Kiev at the beginning of WWII.
Battle Beyond the Sun
Director of Photography
In the distant future, the post-nuclear holocaust Earth is divided into two rival superpowers, North Hemis and South Hemis. Both empires are engaged in competitive race to reach Mars. When a badly under-equipped rocket malfunctions and begins drifting toward the sun, its helpless crew is rescued by the rival mission team. The combined crew continue the flight to mars, when colossal monsters lies in wait on the Martian moons!
Nebo Zovyot
Cinematography
A Soviet scientific expedition is being prepared as the world's first mission to planet Mars. Their space ship Homeland has been built at a space station, where the expedition awaits the command to start. An American ship Typhoon experiencing mechanical problems arrives at the same space station, secretly having the same plans for the conquest of the Red Planet. Trying to stay ahead of Soviets, they start without proper preparation, and soon are again in distress. The Homeland changes course to save the crew of Typhoon. They succeed, but find that their fuel reserves are now insufficient to get to Mars. So Homeland makes an emergency landing on an asteroid "Icarus" passing near Mars, on which they are stranded. After an attempt to send a fuel supply by unmanned rocket fails, another ship Meteor is sent with a cosmonaut on a possibly suicidal mission, to save the stranded cosmonauts.
Ivan Franko
Director of Photography
Historical and biographical film about the life and work of Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko.
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #8
Cinematography
Russian film album for the war
May Night
Director of Photography
By Nikolai Gogol's "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden". Son of a stubborn mayor can not get his father's agreement to marry an ordinary peasant girl. Unexpectedly he gets the help from an "evil force"