Ivan Franko

O ano é 1241. A horda mongol liderada pelo cruel khan Batu se move para o oeste, destruindo tudo em seu caminho. Chegando às montanhas dos Cárpatos, as tropas acampam logo abaixo. No entanto, à noite, vários caçadores locais, os irmãos Berkut, entram secretamente no acampamento e libertam os reféns. Consumido de raiva, o cã decide se vingar e destruir os assentamentos dos Cárpatos. Um traidor entre os moradores diz aos mongóis sobre uma passagem secreta dentro das montanhas. No entanto, um pequeno grupo de caçadores de montanha liderados por Zakhar Berkut tem seu próprio plano para deter a horda inimiga de uma vez por todas..

According to Ivan Franko's story "Cross Trails". A young lawyer Rafalovich arrives in the provincial town. Here he meets his former sweetheart Regina, with whom he separated from his life. Now she is the wife of a Stalsky official. Love flares up again, destroying the lives of all three.

Based on Ivan Franko's novel "Fundamentals of Society". The film is based on real events learned by Ivan Franko when he worked in the criminal chronicle department of one of the Lviv newspapers. There was a murder at Ms Torska's home. The mistress and her son are suspected...

The story of the happy couple Aneli and Anton Angarovych. They love each other, love their children and are ready for anything for the well-being of their family hearth. For this reason, Anton gave five years of his life to the service in Bosnia. Anelya solved this problem in her own way: in order to save the dignity and honor of her family, which she tarnished by participating in criminal cases, she committed suicide.

Baseado na obra-prima dramática homônima de 1893 do ucraniano Ivan Franko [Іван Франко]; uma fábula dos Cárpatos filmada no legado de "Sombra dos ancestrais esquecidos/ Cavalos de fogo [Тіні забутих предків]" de Paradjanov [Параджа́нов].

This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.

The film tells the story of a bitter, hard life of laborers in Ukraine during the second half of the XIX century.