Direction: Yuri Ilyenko
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yuri Ilyenko. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
A Spring for the Thirsty
1965 · Movie · 67 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Nina Alisova · Dzhemma Firsova · Larisa Kadochnikova · Feodosiya Litvinenko
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The Legend of Princess Olga
1984 · Movie · 170 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Lyudmila Yefymenko · Les Serdyuk · Ivan Ivanov · Nikolay Olyalin
Plot The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olga of Kievan Rus at the 10th century.
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The White Bird Marked with Black
1971 · Movie · 99 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Larisa Kadochnikova · Ivan Mikolajchuk · Bogdan Stupka · Yuri Mikolajchuk
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To Dream and Live
1974 · Movie · 89 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Larisa Kadochnikova · Leonid Kuravlyov · Rodion Nahapetov · Yuri Ilyenko
Plot Counter-culture influenced drama, directed with typical flair by Yuri Ilyenko.
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Defying Everybody
1973 · Movie · 86 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Vladimir Popovic · Larisa Kadochnikova · Ivan Mikolajchuk · Boris Khmelnitsky
Plot Trials and tribulations of Petar I Petrovic, the man who united Montenegro in the 18th century and led them in the Battle of Krusi against a huge Turkish army to...
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Swan Lake: The Zone
1990 · Movie · 96 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Viktor Solovyov · Lyudmila Yefimenko · Pylyp Ilyenko · Maya Bulgakova
Plot This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here...
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A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
2002 · Movie · 152 min. · Ukraine
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Bogdan Stupka · Lyudmila Yefimenko · Nikita Dzhigurda · Vyacheslav Dovzhenko
Plot 'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for...
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Feast of the Baked Potato
1979 · Movie · 85 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Lyudmila Yefymenko · Roman Gromadsky · Leonid Yanovsky · Viktor Panchenko
Plot Drama about Aleksandra Avramovna Derevskaya (1902-1959), who, between the two wars - the Civil and Great Patriotic War, raised 48 orphan children of different nationalities. After her death, each birthday,...
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A Story of the Forest: Mavka
1981 · Movie · 83 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Lyudmila Yefymenko · Viktor Kremnyov · Maya Bulgakova · Ivan Mikolajchuk
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A Strip of Uncut Wild Flowers
1980 · Movie · 88 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Yura Madzhula · Aleksei Cherstvov · Zinaida Slavina · Yuri Mazhuga
Plot A story of two delinquent boys at a boarding school, struggling to cope with fathers who abandoned them, and retreating into fantasy.
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Straw Bells
1988 · Movie · 144 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Les Serdyuk · Filipp Ilyenko · Sergei Podgornyj · Mikhail Golubovich
Plot Based on the works of Evgen Gutsalo. One only Bellamy knew Vilgot furrier, one of the sons who died at the front, and the second policeman, was killed by the...
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The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
1968 · Movie · 71 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuri Ilyenko
Cast Boris Khmelnitsky · Larisa Kadochnikova · Yefim Fridman · Dmitri Franko
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