Dovzhenko Film Studios

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National Cinema Studio of feature films named after O.Dovzhenko
Type State-owned Corporation
Industry Motion Pictures
Founded 1927
Headquarters Kiev, Ukraine
Key people Igor Stavchanskyi (CEO)
Products Motion Pictures
Alexander Dovzhenko monument

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.

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 Kiev 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 Shchorsovskyy, 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

Ukraine

  • 1991 Голод-33 / Famine-33, directed by Oles Yanchuk
  • 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
  • 2000 Нескорений /The Undefeated (2000 film), directed by Oles Yanchuk
  • 2003 Мамай / Mamay, directed by Oles Sanin
  • 2004 Залізна Сотня / The Company Of Heroes, directed by Oles Yanchuk
  • 2008 Владика Андрей / Metropolitan Andrey, directed by Oles Yanchuk

See also

References

  1. ↑ Studio for digital restoration of Ukrainian films opens in Kyiv, Interfax-Ukraine (December 17, 2009)

External links

Films studios of the Soviet Union
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