Dovzhenko Film Studios
| State-owned Corporation | |
| Industry | Motion Pictures |
| Founded | 1927 |
| Headquarters | Kyiv, Ukraine |
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Key people
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Oles Yanchuk (CEO) |
| Products | Motion Pictures |
The Dovzhenko Film Studios (Ukrainian: Національна кіностудія художніх фільмів імені О. Довженка, translit. Natsional'na kinostudiya khudozhnikh filmiv imeni O. Dovzhenka) is a former Soviet film production studios located in Ukraine that were named after the Ukrainian film producer, Alexander Dovzhenko, in 1957. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the studio became a property of the government of Ukraine. Since 2000 the film studios were awarded status national.
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History
Its history the studios begin in 1920's when the All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema-Directorate (VUFKU) announced concourse on a project proposition for the construction of a cinema-factory in 1925. Out of 20 of them was chosen the project of Valerian Rykov who led his architect group composed of students of the Architectural Department of Kyiv Art Institute. With the construction of the O. Dovzhenko Film Studios beginning in 1927, it was at the time the largest in the Ukrainian SSR. Although the filming pavilions were still unfinished a year later, movie production had begun. Many memorial plates are located within the studios in memory of the many film producers which had once worked here. One film pavilion is named Shchorsivskyi, because Olexandr Dovzhenko shot his movie, Shchors, there. This area of the studios is currently used as a museum.
The apple orchard located on the side of the avenue near the studios was planted by the order of Dovzhenko himself. Since 1957, they were named in memory of Alexander Dovzhenko.
In December 2009 a studio for the digital restoration of Ukrainian films was opened on the complex.[1]
Selected films
Soviet Union
- 1929 Людина з кіноапаратом / Man with a Movie Camera, directed by Dzyha Vertov (documentary film)
- 1930 Земля / Earth, directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (silent film)
- 1932 Іван / Ivan, directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (silent film)
- 1935 Аероград / Aerograd, directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (science fiction)
- 1939 Щорс / Shchors, directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (documentary film)
- 1941 Богдан Хмельницький / Bohdan Khmelnytsky, directed by Ihor Savchenko (historical)
- 1951 Тарас Шевченко / Taras Shevchenko, directed by Ihor Savchenko (biographical)
- 1961 За двома зайцями / Chasing Two Hares, directed by Viktor Ivanov (comedy)
- 1963 Королева бензоколонки / Queen of the Gas Station, directed by Mykola Litus and Oleksiy Mishurin (comedy)
- 1964 Тіні забутих предків / Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, directed by Serhiy Paradzhanov (historical)
- 1964 Туманність Андромеди / The Andromeda Nebula, directed by Yevheniy Sherstobitov (science fiction)
- 1968 Анничка / Annychka, directed by Borys Ivchenko
- 1970 Білий птах з чорною ознакою / White Bird with Black Mark, directed by Yuriy Illienko
- 1972 Пропала Грамота / The Lost Letter, directed by Borys Ivchenko (comedy)
- 1973 У бій ідуть лише «старі» / Only Old Men are Going to Battle, directed by Leonid Bykov (historical)
- 1976 Ати-бати, йшли солдати... / Aty-baty, Soldiers were Going..., directed by Leonid Bykov (historical)
- 1976 Тривожний місяць вересень / The Troubled Month of Veresen, directed by Leonid Osyka (historical)
- 1978 Дізнання пілота Піркса / Test pilota Pirxa, directed by Marek Piestrak
- 1980 Ярослав Мудрий / Yaroslav the Wise, directed by Hryhoriy Kokhan (historical)
- 1981 Така пізня, така тепла осінь / Such Late, Such Warm Autumn, directed by Ivan Mykolaichuk
- 1988 Нові пригоди Янкі при дворі короля Артура / New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court, directed by Viktor Hres
Ukraine
- 1991 Голод-33 / Famine-33, directed by Oles Yanchuk
- 1991 Чудо в краю забуття / Miracle in the Land of Oblivion, directed by Natalia Motuzko
- 1995 Атентат - осіннє вбивство в Мюнхені / Assassination. An Autumn Murder in Munich, directed by Oles Yanchuk
- 1995 Москаль-чарівник / Moskal-Charivnyk, directed by Mykola Zasieyev-Rudenko
- 1997 Приятель небіжчика / A Friend of the Deceased, directed by Viacheslav Kryshtofovych
- 2000 Нескорений / The Undefeated (2000 film), directed by Oles Yanchuk
- 2001 Молитва за гетьмана Мазепу / Prayer for Hetman Mazepa, directed by Yuriy Illienko
- 2002 Чорна Рада / Chorna Rada (The Black Council), directed by Mykola Zasieiev-Rudenko
- 2004 Залізна Сотня / The Company Of Heroes, directed by Oles Yanchuk
- 2008 Владика Андрей / Metropolitan Andrey, directed by Oles Yanchuk
- 2008 Закон / The Law, directed by Vitaliy Potrukh (short film)
- 2009 Хай Бог розсудить їх... / Let God Judge Them, directed by Yevhen Khvorostianko (short film)
- 2012 Гайдамака / Haidamaka, directed by Roman Synchuk (short film)
- 2012 Метелик / The Butterfly, directed by Maksym Neofit Buinytskyi
- 2012 Мамо, я льотчика люблю! / Mom, I Love a Pilot!, directed by Oleksandr Ihnatusha
- 2013 Красна Маланка / Krasna Malanka, directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
- 2015 Загублене місто / Lost City, directed by Vitaliy Potrukh
See also
References
- ↑ Studio for digital restoration of Ukrainian films opens in Kyiv, Interfax-Ukraine (December 17, 2009)
- Ruta Malikenaite. Guildebook: Touring Kyiv. Kiev: Baltia Druk, 2003. ISBN 966-96041-3-3
