Ivan Tverdokhlib

Prometey (1936)

The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill fame. In the troops an ordinary peasant gets acquainted with an ideological revolutionary and becomes inspired with the feeling of inequity to the existing social ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Kavaleridze
CAST:  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  Polina Nyatko  •  Danylo Antonovych  •  Oleksandr Serdyuk

The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill fame. In the troops an ordinary peasant gets acquainted with an ideological revolutionary and becomes inspired with the feeling of inequity to the existing social ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Kavaleridze
CAST:  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  Polina Nyatko  •  Danylo Antonovych  •  Oleksandr Serdyuk

The Czarina Commands (1934)

The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Kavaleridze
CAST:  Oleksandr Serdyuk  •  Ivan Maryanenko  •  Jakub Libert  •  Naum Sheinberg

The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Kavaleridze
CAST:  Oleksandr Serdyuk  •  Ivan Maryanenko  •  Jakub Libert  •  Naum Sheinberg

The Horse That Cried (1957)

An adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky, a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955, that anticipates the Ukrainian "poetic cinema" of the '60s in its focus on star-crossed lovers and its celebration of nature. Set in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mark Donskoy
CAST:  Vera Donskaya  •  Yuri Dedovich  •  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  Olga Petrova

An adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky, a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955, that anticipates the Ukrainian "poetic cinema" of the '60s in its focus on star-crossed lovers and its celebration of nature. Set in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mark Donskoy
CAST:  Vera Donskaya  •  Yuri Dedovich  •  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  Olga Petrova

Pravo ottsov (1931)

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DIRECTION:  Vera Stroyeva
CAST:  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  G. Rostov  •  Borya Schepanovsky  •  V. Komaretskyi

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DIRECTION:  Vera Stroyeva
CAST:  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  G. Rostov  •  Borya Schepanovsky  •  V. Komaretskyi

Blown Up Days (1930)

The year 1929. A “shock worker” from a tractor plant visits a film studio premises and is furious to see fake stage designs for a kitsch production about a Soviet life. He refuses to help the crew with his tractor, but is happy to ask one of the cameramen to go ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksandr Solovyov
CAST:  Ivan Sizov  •  P. Kostenko  •  Oleksii Kharlamov  •  G. Rostov

The year 1929. A “shock worker” from a tractor plant visits a film studio premises and is furious to see fake stage designs for a kitsch production about a Soviet life. He refuses to help the crew with his tractor, but is happy to ask one of the cameramen to go ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Aleksandr Solovyov
CAST:  Ivan Sizov  •  P. Kostenko  •  Oleksii Kharlamov  •  G. Rostov

Perekop (1930)

This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Kavaleridze
CAST:  Stepan Shahaida  •  Semen Svashenko  •  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  Sergei Minin

This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Kavaleridze
CAST:  Stepan Shahaida  •  Semen Svashenko  •  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  Sergei Minin

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DIRECTION:  Boris Yurtsev
CAST:  Tatyana Barysheva  •  Ivan Bobrov  •  Vasili Bokarev  •  Emmanuil Geller

Pigs Will Be Pigs (1931)

At the "Pupky" station, an opportunity occurs: two illegal passengers - guinea pigs - have to be disembarked from one of the trains, since animals cannot be transported in a general carriage. The head of the station Pryvychkin tries to help the animals, but the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Khanan Shmain
CAST:  Konstiantyn Harin  •  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  Maria Maksakova  •  Borys Bezhin

At the "Pupky" station, an opportunity occurs: two illegal passengers - guinea pigs - have to be disembarked from one of the trains, since animals cannot be transported in a general carriage. The head of the station Pryvychkin tries to help the animals, but the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Khanan Shmain
CAST:  Konstiantyn Harin  •  Ivan Tverdokhlib  •  Maria Maksakova  •  Borys Bezhin

Night Raids (1931)

A peasant visits the DneproGES construction. Agitprop film about industrialisation and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Kavaleridze
CAST:  Yevgeni Ponomarenko  •  Vera Shershnyova  •  Stepan Shkurat  •  Semen Svashenko

A peasant visits the DneproGES construction. Agitprop film about industrialisation and Dnieper Hydroelectric Station construction.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan Kavaleridze
CAST:  Yevgeni Ponomarenko  •  Vera Shershnyova  •  Stepan Shkurat  •  Semen Svashenko