Mykola Mashchenko

Directing

Mykola Mashchenko

Born — Died

1929-01-12 — 2013-05-02

Place of birth

Melovatka, Luganskaya oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

People's Artist of Ukraine (1983). He graduated from the acting department of the Kharkov Theater Institute (1950), then the directing department of the same institute (1953). He worked as a theater director. Since 1957 - director, screenwriter, actor of the Kyiv Film Studio named after A. Dovzhenko. Author of a number of film publications, teacher at KGITI named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary. Since 1969 - Secretary of the Board of the Investigative Committee of Ukraine.

Known for

To Remember poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

To Remember

1993

Love Conquers All poster
NR

Based on the short story collection «A Moment Before Happiness» by Oles Honchar. A love story between a Hungarian girl, Lóri, and a Ukrainian soldier, Sashko, at the end of the Second World War. An unexpected meeting and a fleeting moment of happiness are overshadowed by the advances of a Hungarian man who is obsessed with her. Defending his beloved, Sashko kills the jealous rival. The scandal is then covered up by Sashko’s death.

Love Conquers All

1987

The Gadfly poster
5.1

The movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.

The Gadfly

1980

My Joy poster
NR

The collective farm driver Vasyl and the young Anyuta were happy when they celebrated their wedding. But soon married life becomes a burden for the girl – Vasyl does nothing but buy and acquire things.

My Joy

1961

The Zone poster
NR

Based on the play by Mykola Kulish. The film takes place at a time when Soviet power was established, and due to collectivization and excessive withdrawal of funds from grain sales abroad, famine began. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of three comrades who initially supported the revolution and the new system, but now have changed their views.

The Zone

1988

Autumn Trip to Mother poster
NR

Successful film director Dmitry Pavlovich must fly by plane to Moscow and then to Rome. But the phone rings in his house and he is told that his old mother, who lives in Melovatka, his native village, has fallen ill. Dmitry Pavlovich hires a taxi and begins his “autumn journey to his mother.”

Autumn Trip to Mother

1981

Series credits

Behind the camera

Love Conquers All poster
NR

Based on the short story collection «A Moment Before Happiness» by Oles Honchar. A love story between a Hungarian girl, Lóri, and a Ukrainian soldier, Sashko, at the end of the Second World War. An unexpected meeting and a fleeting moment of happiness are overshadowed by the advances of a Hungarian man who is obsessed with her. Defending his beloved, Sashko kills the jealous rival. The scandal is then covered up by Sashko’s death.

Love Conquers All

1987

Love Conquers All poster
NR

Based on the short story collection «A Moment Before Happiness» by Oles Honchar. A love story between a Hungarian girl, Lóri, and a Ukrainian soldier, Sashko, at the end of the Second World War. An unexpected meeting and a fleeting moment of happiness are overshadowed by the advances of a Hungarian man who is obsessed with her. Defending his beloved, Sashko kills the jealous rival. The scandal is then covered up by Sashko’s death.

Love Conquers All

1987

The Gadfly poster
5.1

The movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.

The Gadfly

1980

My Joy poster
NR

The collective farm driver Vasyl and the young Anyuta were happy when they celebrated their wedding. But soon married life becomes a burden for the girl – Vasyl does nothing but buy and acquire things.

My Joy

1961

The Zone poster
NR

Based on the play by Mykola Kulish. The film takes place at a time when Soviet power was established, and due to collectivization and excessive withdrawal of funds from grain sales abroad, famine began. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of three comrades who initially supported the revolution and the new system, but now have changed their views.

The Zone

1988

The Zone poster
NR

Based on the play by Mykola Kulish. The film takes place at a time when Soviet power was established, and due to collectivization and excessive withdrawal of funds from grain sales abroad, famine began. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of three comrades who initially supported the revolution and the new system, but now have changed their views.

The Zone

1988

Autumn Trip to Mother poster
NR

Successful film director Dmitry Pavlovich must fly by plane to Moscow and then to Rome. But the phone rings in his house and he is told that his old mother, who lives in Melovatka, his native village, has fallen ill. Dmitry Pavlovich hires a taxi and begins his “autumn journey to his mother.”

Autumn Trip to Mother

1981

A Child poster
10.0

The German-Soviet war. A group of scouts discovers a four-year-old girl at a bombed-out railway station who hid during the bombing and fell behind the echelon of evacuated orphanage children, and takes her with them. Soon the scouts are ambushed by the Germans in the forest.

A Child

1967

A Child poster
10.0

The German-Soviet war. A group of scouts discovers a four-year-old girl at a bombed-out railway station who hid during the bombing and fell behind the echelon of evacuated orphanage children, and takes her with them. Soon the scouts are ambushed by the Germans in the forest.

A Child

1967

I'm Coming to You... poster
6.5

The main motive of the film - a tragic love of Lesya Ukrainka to Marxist revolutionary Sergei Merzhinskiy. The film is about the poetess' trip to her beloved, in the literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

I'm Coming to You...

1970

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

No artwork available
NR

The emotional and philosophical impetus for the creation of the film was Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko. It also became an integral part of the film’s content: Shevchenko’s lines transcend the distances of time, resonating as contemporary and relevant.

Kobzar

1993

There's Sky Everywhere poster
7.0

A little girl's longing for her father, a military pilot who died in the line of duty, becomes unbearable. But then Major Lukyanov, who resembles Tanya's father, appears in the house. Having found a friend, the girl dreams of getting her father back. But anxiety settles in her childish soul once again. After all, he is also a pilot.

There's Sky Everywhere

1966

The Commissars poster
6.7

To build a young state of workers and peasants, the party does not spare its most devoted and ardent fighters and sends experienced Bolsheviks to commissar courses.

The Commissars

1971

The Commissars poster
6.7

To build a young state of workers and peasants, the party does not spare its most devoted and ardent fighters and sends experienced Bolsheviks to commissar courses.

The Commissars

1971

No artwork available
NR

This artistic and journalistic film-requiem is dedicated to the victims of the Ukrainian people who died during the Holodomor famine of 1933. Using documentary footage and archival materials, the film recreates the horrific scenes of the tragedy.

Pieta

1993

No artwork available
NR

This artistic and journalistic film-requiem is dedicated to the victims of the Ukrainian people who died during the Holodomor famine of 1933. Using documentary footage and archival materials, the film recreates the horrific scenes of the tragedy.

Pieta

1993

Marrying Death poster
7.9

End of the 1930s. The times of Stalin's terror. Lieutenant Scherbakov got the order to shoot several "enemies of the people". Unexpectedly, a rural wedding found itself at the crime scene. Pursuant to the instruction, witnesses were also eliminated...

Marrying Death

1992

Marrying Death poster
7.9

End of the 1930s. The times of Stalin's terror. Lieutenant Scherbakov got the order to shoot several "enemies of the people". Unexpectedly, a rural wedding found itself at the crime scene. Pursuant to the instruction, witnesses were also eliminated...

Marrying Death

1992

On the Eve poster
NR

Elena Nikolaevna Stakhova, a girl from a noble family, is full of lofty ideals. Seeking “active good” and heroism and not finding the use of her powers in her environment, she falls in love with the Bulgarian student Insarov, a poor commoner democrat. Elena completely devotes herself to her chosen one and follows him along his difficult path. After the wedding, the young people decide to leave for Bulgaria, where the struggle for freedom has been going on for 400 years. But, never having reached his homeland, Insarov dies...

On the Eve

1985

On the Eve poster
NR

Elena Nikolaevna Stakhova, a girl from a noble family, is full of lofty ideals. Seeking “active good” and heroism and not finding the use of her powers in her environment, she falls in love with the Bulgarian student Insarov, a poor commoner democrat. Elena completely devotes herself to her chosen one and follows him along his difficult path. After the wedding, the young people decide to leave for Bulgaria, where the struggle for freedom has been going on for 400 years. But, never having reached his homeland, Insarov dies...

On the Eve

1985

Two Deaths poster
NR

A film adaptation of the story of the same name by Aleksandr Serafimovich about the participation of young people in the revolution and civil war.

Two Deaths

1967

Dear, Beloved Mother... poster
NR

At the age of 18, Tatiana married Maxim, a widower, and became the mother of his three children. But soon her husband dies at the hands of bandits, and her relatives, seeking to take over the household, throw her out of the house. Some time later Tatiana marries Pavel, the father of four children, and by the age of 26 gives birth to three sons. But the war begins and with it come more severe trials....

Dear, Beloved Mother...

1986

Dear, Beloved Mother... poster
NR

At the age of 18, Tatiana married Maxim, a widower, and became the mother of his three children. But soon her husband dies at the hands of bandits, and her relatives, seeking to take over the household, throw her out of the house. Some time later Tatiana marries Pavel, the father of four children, and by the age of 26 gives birth to three sons. But the war begins and with it come more severe trials....

Dear, Beloved Mother...

1986

I Want to Believe poster
NR

Young journalist is investigating some tragic moments from the history of WWII.

I Want to Believe

1965

I Want to Believe poster
NR

Young journalist is investigating some tragic moments from the history of WWII.

I Want to Believe

1965

Red House Novellas poster
NR

During WWII, the film's protagonist, Maxim, retreats with his troops and leaves a red house in one of Ukraine's villages. Years later, Maxim, now no longer a soldier but an agronomist, returns and settles in the same house. He falls in love with a girl named Dusya, whom he recognizes as the girl who brought milk during the war.

Red House Novellas

1964

Parisian Drama poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Parisian Drama

1984

Parisian Drama poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Parisian Drama

1984