Vadym Smarchenko

Filmes

On a Way Back
Cinematography
Because of the decommunization laws, paintings and sculpturesof socialist realism at the National Art Museum of Ukraine aretrapped in complicated political circumstances. Will those works be brought back to the museum after its reconstruction?
Grey Horses
Camera Operator
Based on the investigation records and the stories of relatives of a little-known Ukrainian anarchist Ivan Krupsky, who is the great-grandfather of the film's director. The documentary dramatizations are dedicated to the paradoxical periods of the protagonist's life: his leadership in a rebel unit, participation in the civil war of the early 1920s, his hiding from persecution under the guise of a Soviet police officer, his job as a factory construction worker. The stories about situations in the past are reproduced using the actions of contemporary characters: contemporary anarchists, officers of the New Police, students and workers. The filming took place at the locations of particular historical events, in Poltava, Hadiach, Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv.