
Directing
Leonid Osyka
Born 1940-03-08 · Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Leonid Mikhailovich Osyka (Ukrainian: Леонід Михайлович Осика) (8 March 1940 in Kyiv – 16 September 2001 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian movie director, producer, and screen writer. Osyka was awarded the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize of Ukraine, which was established to honor outstanding contributions to the development of Ukrainian cinema.
Acting credits
7.0The plant director gathers all the young people in one shop, entrusting them with both work and management. The experiment is unsuccessful, as the youth workshop did not become a collective. Young engineer Sergey, who heads the shop, realizes that only by uniting the youth, he will be able to work fruitfully and fight against marriage and indiscipline. Tsybulkin, who was chosen as a Komsorog, helps to realize the plan conceived by Sergey,. Two schools come to internship. One of them - Lisa Gromova, the daughter of the director of the plant. The shop staff and Sergei undertake to re-educate the maiden spoiled by her mother. Director Gromov himself helps them.
Happy Birthday
1962
NRAbout love and loyalty, which helps to withstand the trials of fate in the most difficult times. The film features Svitlana Knyazeva and Leonid Osyka, Kateryna and Boryslav Brondukov', Kostyantyn Stepankov and Ada Rogovtseva.
Eternal Cross
2003
Behind the camera
4.0A poetical story about little girl who feels alone even on a beach full of people.
Entering the Sea
1965
4.0A poetical story about little girl who feels alone even on a beach full of people.
Entering the Sea
1965
NRThis is a documentary movie about one of the most important figures in the Soviet cinema - Leonid Bykov. No doubt, his biography and career deserve to become be acquainted with. In the Bykov's life a lot of funny stories and serious dramatic events happened. That will be interesting to Leonid’s fans and all those interested in the history of Soviet culture.
Who was loved by all
1982
5.1This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.
Zakhar Berkut
1972
NRYoung revolutionary carried out the attack. She is waiting for a death sentence. Police warden who arrested girl, gives his little son a quite unusual birthday present - takes the boy to the execution.
The Birthday Present
1991
NRYoung revolutionary carried out the attack. She is waiting for a death sentence. Police warden who arrested girl, gives his little son a quite unusual birthday present - takes the boy to the execution.
The Birthday Present
1991
6.5In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.
The Stone Cross
1968
NRTrofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.
The Grandfather of the Left Winger
1973
NRTrofim Bessarab has been working as a house painter for all his life. He is a pensioner now and it seems that he can let himself have a rest. But idleness is not for Trofim. His nature is to be a working man and he looks for the way to apply his irrepressible energy, he possesses despite his age.
The Grandfather of the Left Winger
1973
9.0A fisheries inspector is killed while on night duty in a small fishing village on the shores of the Azov Sea. The murder draws the attention of the authorities and local residents to the problems of protecting and restoring the endangered nature of the once-rich region.
The Sea
1978
9.0A fisheries inspector is killed while on night duty in a small fishing village on the shores of the Azov Sea. The murder draws the attention of the authorities and local residents to the problems of protecting and restoring the endangered nature of the once-rich region.
The Sea
1978
The film takes place in 1659 when Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son Yuri took power from Hetman Vyhovsky. Supporters of Bohdan Khmelnytsky are trying to help his daughter Olena to save her father's regalia - the symbol of Hetman's power and independence of Ukraine.
The Hetman's Jewels
1993
The film takes place in 1659 when Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son Yuri took power from Hetman Vyhovsky. Supporters of Bohdan Khmelnytsky are trying to help his daughter Olena to save her father's regalia - the symbol of Hetman's power and independence of Ukraine.
The Hetman's Jewels
1993
5.5Autumn 1944. Wounded scout returns to his home village only to fight with bandits.
The Troubled Month of Veresen
1977
NRTwo young people cannot understand each other.
The Two
1964
7.0On the banks of a marvelous lake lost in the sands of Qazaqstan, there were four strong houses interconnected with striped gardens. Hermits lived there: grandfather Matvey, Baba Verunya, Marusya and Lenya. They lived at odds with nature and were happy. But once aliens visited the Seventh Edge – those were stray Moscow scientists who inadvertently disrupted the peaceful life of the quiet place.
Come in, the Suffering!
1987
7.0On the banks of a marvelous lake lost in the sands of Qazaqstan, there were four strong houses interconnected with striped gardens. Hermits lived there: grandfather Matvey, Baba Verunya, Marusya and Lenya. They lived at odds with nature and were happy. But once aliens visited the Seventh Edge – those were stray Moscow scientists who inadvertently disrupted the peaceful life of the quiet place.
Come in, the Suffering!
1987
6.4Follows a young soldier and poet at the beginning of World War II in 1941. After being wounded while trying to save his commander, he finds himself behind enemy lines and goes through an arduous journey of survival and trials as he makes his way to a partisan detachment. Throughout his ordeal, the soldier reads poems by wartime poets.
Love Awaits Those Who Return
1968
6.4Follows a young soldier and poet at the beginning of World War II in 1941. After being wounded while trying to save his commander, he finds himself behind enemy lines and goes through an arduous journey of survival and trials as he makes his way to a partisan detachment. Throughout his ordeal, the soldier reads poems by wartime poets.
Love Awaits Those Who Return
1968
NRFilm about the painter Mikhail Vrubel's years in Kyiv, from a Sergei Parajanov script.
Etudes on Vrubel
1989
NRFilm about the painter Mikhail Vrubel's years in Kyiv, from a Sergei Parajanov script.
Etudes on Vrubel
1989
NRMariia lost her husband and three children in the war. Having lost all her loved ones, she decided to help other victims of the bloodshed. Adopting three orphans, she moves far away from the places that awaken the pain of her lost family in her heart, and raises her new charges under a peaceful sky...
Bow to the Ground
1986
NRMariia lost her husband and three children in the war. Having lost all her loved ones, she decided to help other victims of the bloodshed. Adopting three orphans, she moves far away from the places that awaken the pain of her lost family in her heart, and raises her new charges under a peaceful sky...
Bow to the Ground
1986
