Nikolai Topchiy

Movies

Lileya
Cinematography
The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.
Lileya
Director
The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.
Shtepsel Arranges The Marriage Of Tarapunka
Director of Photography
Funny adventures of two frontline friends who succeeded on the stage and found happiness in their private lives. During the war Tarapunka met Halya. He told his only friend Shtepsel about his love for a sweet girl with a rare surname Sumatokha. But he could not get along with Halya because of his timidity. The war ended, and Halya arrived in Kyiv. Tarapunka meets her again, but now he is hindered by accident. Then Shtepsel undertakes to arrange the marriage of his friend...
Prometey
Director of Photography
A film based on works and biography of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861).
The Czarina Commands
Cinematography
The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.
Night Assault
Director of Photography
A peasant visits the DneproGES construction.
Perekop
Cinematography
This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.