Pyotr Chardynin Movies

To justify the fantastic adventures of the blacksmith Vakula, the authors of the film “simplify” Gogol’s plot: Vakula, having drunk...

The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. At that time, it was one of the most expensive...

The film is set in the 17th century, when social antagonism is at its peak. The poverty of peasants and poor Cossacks is opposed to the lavish...

A tragic story of a ballerina.

About a young pretty bride, who cannot choose between all the grooms that circles around her...

Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.

Paula is a circus performer married to the alcoholic clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio's heavy drinking leads to him being severely injured during a...

The film is based on V. Yurezanskyi’s novel The Missing Village about the struggle of Ukrainian Cossacks for their freedom during the reign of...

An adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel.

A female doctor is so busy with her work that she has too little time for her fiancé. He falls in love with a waitress and the two have a...

Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.