Yurii Illienko

‘A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa’ unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, ...

In 1989, Yuri Ilyenko came to Tbilisi to show Sergei Parajanov his film “Swan Lake. The Zone“, based on Parajanov’s prison stories. The ...

A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker; which is ...

Vasyl Vilgota raised two sons. One of them died on the fronts of the Second World War, defending the homeland, and the second served as ...

The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus’ (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of ...

Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of ...