Taras Denysenko

Acting

Taras Denysenko

Born 1965-03-23 · Kiev, USSR [now Ukraine]

Acting credits

The Black Valley poster
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Based on the work of Yurii Mushketyk "Yasa". The action of the picture takes place in the 17th century, when Ukraine, led by the legendary Ivan Sirko, was defending itself from Tatar raids. A story of Ivan Sirko, the legendary Ukrainian originally from the Merefa county near Kharkiv, who was elected the leader of Cossacks eight times, bravely fought and won 53 major battles.

The Black Valley

1990

Business as Usual poster
6.0

Forty years old is a perfect age to change ones life. The hero makes a decision to quit the psychotherapist's cabinet, which he is sick and tired of and become a poet. To become a freelance artist. A trifle remained to cope with to persuade the wife.

Business as Usual

2013

High Pass poster
4.8

World War II scattered the Carpathian peasant family of Yaroslava Petrin. She is a dedicated communist, and her husband, son and daughter support OUN-UPA.

High Pass

1982

Fuchzhou poster
5.0

The action is set at the start of the twentieth century, between a village by the River Dnyepr and the coast of Florida. While the story has ironic, romantic and sometimes mystic angles, the bitter aspects of emigration from Ukraine to the United States become clearly visible.

Fuchzhou

1993

The Guard poster
4.6

​Young soldiers in the Soviet Internal Troops are subjected to systematic abuse during their dedovshchina (hazing). The plot unfolds primarily aboard a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.

The Guard

1990

The Guide poster
7.8

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.

The Guide

2014

Eighteen Year Olds poster
NR

Based on the novel of the same name by Yuri Smolich about the struggle of young people to establish Soviet power in Ukraine.

Eighteen Year Olds

1987

Between the Frames poster
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Between the Frames is the story of an exceptional relationship between a teacher and a young generation of actors brought up in his creative workshop. Five years after graduation from university, the main characters return to see themselves from the side and try to catch what is happening between the frames. The story is told by ex-students while they are watching behind-the-scenes archives of their student performance The Cabaret and reflecting upon the years that have passed. In the center of the story stands a teacher as a life-turning figure for each of the characters.

Between the Frames

2020

Oxygen Starvation poster
6.1

Soviet army was one the worst for human dignity places to be. The task of the army was to turn freethinkers into normal dumb Soviet people. An intelligent Ukrainian guy refuses to obey.

Oxygen Starvation

1992

No artwork available
NR

In a small Ukrainian village in the 1830s, a youthful Kateryna leaves her fioncee Myron for Ivan, a soldier in the Russian imperial army, who promises to make her his wife after returning from his draft in the Russo-Ottoman War. However, he never returns and Kateryna soon grows desperate.

The Story of Kateryna

2014

Judenkreis: The Eternal Wheel poster
7.7

A completely true story about how a real-life Don Juan comes to a Bukovynsky border town and what happens as a result. In the center of the story is the Ukrainian maiden Marichka’s love, which takes place against the background of numerous coup d’états during the Second World War.

Judenkreis: The Eternal Wheel

1996

Life Will Go On! poster
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Protagonist dies and goes to the afterlife, weirdly similar to Soviet sanatorium. He finds friends and love interest there, but farewell is soon - doctors are going to resuscitate him

Life Will Go On!

1995

Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky poster
5.0

Film tells the story of one of the most difficult and tragic moments of the liberation war of Ukrainian people against the rule of Poland (1648 - 1657 years) - Battle of Zbarazh.

Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky

2008

Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky poster
5.0

Film tells the story of one of the most difficult and tragic moments of the liberation war of Ukrainian people against the rule of Poland (1648 - 1657 years) - Battle of Zbarazh.

Bohdan Zynoviy Khmelnytsky

2008

Poor People poster
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Andriy lives in a God-forsaken village with his paralyzed wife. He takes care of her every day, but at the same time he makes a coffin for her and arranges a wake.

Poor People

2015

Miracle in the Land of Oblivion poster
8.0

In a small Ukrainian village Rudivka, where a rumor begins to circulate that the Second Coming is nigh and that the Messiah is already somewhere in the region, lived the twins. Local people were considering them being one person. The people had got scared, when one of the brothers was killed. They thought that supernatural forces took the law into their own hands. The thought pushed people to committing the terrible deeds. The guesswork brings serious consequences. Based on the novel "Petro Uteklyi" by Valerii Shevchuk.

Miracle in the Land of Oblivion

1991

Hamburg poster
NR

Ihor wanted to move to America for all his adult life. To Europe, at worst. But his dream was destined to come true only partially – it’s his kidney that moves abroad… His own wife persuades Ihor to sell his organ to Hamburg. Operation will be held illegally and there’s no guarantee that he’ll be given all of the promised money. But the advance is already paid. His wife seems to be satisfied. Now she’s got a new handbag.

Hamburg

2012

No artwork available
NR

Sasha has a house in Blahodatne village and a loving textbook wife. The second baby is on the way. They are paying out the loan for a big fridge and they dream to save some money for a gas boiler. In the distant future they plan to buy a low cost car and travel to Crimea. To bring those modest dreams to life Sasha had to develop a sophisticated illegal fraud scheme. Accidentally, Sasha’s scheme is revealed. Looks like travel to Crimea is going to be postponed.

How the Cossacks Flew to Space

2012

The Wedding Is Accused poster
5.3

The wedding turns into a crime scene. The wedding is like the apotheosis of meaninglessness, a metaphor for society. The story of the generation of the eighties with a tragic ending. The film uses the true facts of the criminal case.

The Wedding Is Accused

1986

It's Not Always Summer in Crimea poster
10.0

The film is dedicated to Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, the younger brother of V.I. Lenin, a professional revolutionary, doctor and creator of the first Soviet sanatoriums and rest homes in the Crimea.

It's Not Always Summer in Crimea

1988

Handfuls poster
NR

The film tells the story of the difficult and tragic fate of a Prykarpattia family over several generations. The events take place in the difficult 30s and 40s. Zhmeniak's father tries to gather more land in his possession by all means. But not everyone understands that he will divide all that land between his children when it comes time to die anyway, and they are simply jealous of his possessions. Meanwhile, the children have their own dramas and tragedies, because it's one thing to love someone, and another thing to know what the father thinks about it, and who he sees as wives for his sons. And then there are changes of government, and then there is the war...

Handfuls

1987

Have Mercy and Forgive poster
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A young artist, a graduate student Yuri Dyachenko leaves the Institute of Arts, defending his right to freedom of creativity. Yuri manages to arrange his first solo exhibition. However, his paintings turn out to be incomprehensible to a wide audience. This becomes one of the reasons for the spiritual crisis of the painter. The hero's relationship with the outside world is difficult...

Have Mercy and Forgive

1988

Miracle on Schedule poster
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Veronica went out for a motorcycle ride one evening and was hit by a drunk driver who did not want to stop. Now she moves in a wheelchair and dreams of an operation for which she does not have the means. One day she meets Andrei, a young but successful lawyer. Andrei is almost married, his fiancee is pregnant and rich, but meeting Veronica turns his whole life upside down...

Miracle on Schedule

2016

Tethered to the Runway poster
NR

When a man cannot get a health certificate from a veterinary, he leaves his dog at the airport. Abandoned, the dog waits for her master, hoping to meet him off of every plane.

Tethered to the Runway

1989

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