Director of Photography
Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are imbued with love for the common people. Fiery freedom-loving creativity of Taras Shevchenko is known throughout Russia. Nicholas I exiles the poet to the distant Caspian fort where he is to serve as an ordinary soldier and is banned from writing or drawing. In the poet's difficult days he has the support of Ukrainian soldier Skobelev, Polish revolutionary Sierakowski, captain Kosarev and the commandant of the fortress, Uskov. For the sake of his release Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov are hard at work. And so, the sick and aged Shevchenko is finally free. Together with Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, he dreams of a bright future of the motherland, when the Russian and Ukrainian peoples throw off the chains of slavery.
Director of Photography
After the critical lambasting of his masterpiece Earth, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs. Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life, disrupted by the beat of looming industrialisation.
Director of Photography
Un viejo campesino ucraniano se dispone a morir sobre la tierra en la que ha trabajado toda su vida. Su nieto, Vasil, decide entonces que el consejo de la villa debe comprar un tractor para compartirlo entre los granjeros, que unidos vencerán a las dificultades de la naturaleza y a la opresión de los ricos terratenientes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Cinematography
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
Director of Photography
Durante la Guerra Civil de 1917-1921 en Ucrania, un terrateniente y su familia huyen de las tropas bolcheviques, que se encuentran ya en las afueras de la ciudad. El portero fiel (Anton) se queda atrás para proteger los objetos de valor de la familia, enterrándolos en el jardín. Durante la caótica huida en la estación, el hijo del propietario se separa de la familia y regresa a la propiedad, donde Anton lo esconde en su pequeño cuarto del desván. Por la noche, la mansión es ocupada por bolcheviques dirigidos por el hijo de Anton, Andrii. Anton no comparte las ideas políticas de su hijo y se resiste a mostrar su amor por él. Hasta que sucede algo...
Cinematography
Dovzhenko's debut film, it deals with a dandified barber's attempts to get rid of his "love berry" - his illegitimate offspring. Although a farce, its permissive sexuality can still be considered to be risque.
