Directing
Oleksandr Muratov
Born — Died
1935-04-21 — 2025-04-14
Place of birth
Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
Known for
Directing
Credits
39 titles
Oleksandr Muratov (Олександр Муратов) is a Ukrainian film director, poet, and author. Between 1962–1968, Muratov was the director of the Odesa Film Studio, and from 1968 he was the director of the Kyiv-based Dovzhenko Film Studio. He lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Known for
8.0The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.
Avdotya Pavlovna
1967
NRA sweet romance unfolds between two young factory workers who meet on a train and set out to discover their city together before the young woman must return to her flat.
Spring Rain
1958
3.8Senya, a young hunter, hunts for two wolves that have been preying on sheep of various farms in Siberia. Kira Muratova and husband Oleksandr Muratov's diploma film.
By the Ravine
1962
3.0A child actor runs away from his film set and embarks on a series of adventures around Kyiv.
Big Troubles for a Small Boy
1968
NR"Little School Orchestra" plunges headlong into the mood and atmosphere of Kyiv in the 60s. The lyrical tape tells about a small youth group, where such different boys and girls have one love - music. Life separates friends, but school friendship and music will stay with them forever.
Little School Orchestra
1968
2.5The public prosecution office of Yalta gets the next scheduled case about the murder in the business-circles. This time the victim is an accountant of one of the big businesses. The investigators set out a lot of leads. But the sphere of the alleged criminals is too wide, and the key will be very uncommon and exticiting.
Murder in Winter Yalta
2007
Behind the camera
8.0The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.
Avdotya Pavlovna
1967
8.0The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.
Avdotya Pavlovna
1967
NRA sweet romance unfolds between two young factory workers who meet on a train and set out to discover their city together before the young woman must return to her flat.
Spring Rain
1958
NRA sweet romance unfolds between two young factory workers who meet on a train and set out to discover their city together before the young woman must return to her flat.
Spring Rain
1958
3.8Senya, a young hunter, hunts for two wolves that have been preying on sheep of various farms in Siberia. Kira Muratova and husband Oleksandr Muratov's diploma film.
By the Ravine
1962
3.8Senya, a young hunter, hunts for two wolves that have been preying on sheep of various farms in Siberia. Kira Muratova and husband Oleksandr Muratov's diploma film.
By the Ravine
1962
3.0A child actor runs away from his film set and embarks on a series of adventures around Kyiv.
Big Troubles for a Small Boy
1968
NR"Little School Orchestra" plunges headlong into the mood and atmosphere of Kyiv in the 60s. The lyrical tape tells about a small youth group, where such different boys and girls have one love - music. Life separates friends, but school friendship and music will stay with them forever.
Little School Orchestra
1968
NR"Little School Orchestra" plunges headlong into the mood and atmosphere of Kyiv in the 60s. The lyrical tape tells about a small youth group, where such different boys and girls have one love - music. Life separates friends, but school friendship and music will stay with them forever.
Little School Orchestra
1968
2.5The public prosecution office of Yalta gets the next scheduled case about the murder in the business-circles. This time the victim is an accountant of one of the big businesses. The investigators set out a lot of leads. But the sphere of the alleged criminals is too wide, and the key will be very uncommon and exticiting.
Murder in Winter Yalta
2007
2.5The public prosecution office of Yalta gets the next scheduled case about the murder in the business-circles. This time the victim is an accountant of one of the big businesses. The investigators set out a lot of leads. But the sphere of the alleged criminals is too wide, and the key will be very uncommon and exticiting.
Murder in Winter Yalta
2007
NRFrom the childhood Natasha Korolyuk showed talent for music. She graduated from the conservatory in a small town and was ready to begin new and exciting activities. But her life plans changed when she met pianist Alexander. She married him and moved to Moscow. But soon the girl realizes that her husband is the usual mediocrity and seedy bohemian who wants to live idly. Active Natasha does not want to cast in lot with this man and returns to her homeland.
Do You Know How to Live?
1970
NRFrom the childhood Natasha Korolyuk showed talent for music. She graduated from the conservatory in a small town and was ready to begin new and exciting activities. But her life plans changed when she met pianist Alexander. She married him and moved to Moscow. But soon the girl realizes that her husband is the usual mediocrity and seedy bohemian who wants to live idly. Active Natasha does not want to cast in lot with this man and returns to her homeland.
Do You Know How to Live?
1970
6.5Fifteen years old Tirrei Davenant is a waiter at a roadside restaurant, where on the wall hangs a strange fantastic landscape. One day the millionaire's daughters accidentally visit a restaurant.
The Road to Nowhere
1992
6.5Fifteen years old Tirrei Davenant is a waiter at a roadside restaurant, where on the wall hangs a strange fantastic landscape. One day the millionaire's daughters accidentally visit a restaurant.
The Road to Nowhere
1992
8.0Anton Cheremys returns to his hometown, where he has not been for several years. Meeting with the past brings back memories of friends, the woman he loves, and the tragic moments of one disturbing night when he and his team risked their lives to save people.
That Very Night
1970
NRThe boy Petya scares all the animals, boasting of his strength. But when he fell into a puddle, the little hares, the cockerel, and the squirrel came to the rescue. And Petya realized that one cannot live without friendship.
Petya the Cockerel
1960
4.7Makar has spent years overseeing work at a collective farm. After he is asked to retire, it is time for Makar's son to take the reins. Yet the farm workers' hopes are soon dashed, and it is up to Makar to right the ship.
Our Honest Bread
1964
7.0Prosecutor's office investigator Vershinin is leading two cases - the murder of a notorious scoundrel and speculator, as well as the search for the author of anonymous denunciations against plant director Kuleshov, who is opposing those who, while shouting about perestroika, defend their own benefit.
To Bring Out All the Truth
1988
8.0Dotsenko family, the father and son, works in the same workshop. The prosperity of the native plant is important for both father and son. But despite this, there are often disagreements between them, because the father considers his son to be a frivolous person.
The Morning is Wiser Than Evening
1982
8.0Dotsenko family, the father and son, works in the same workshop. The prosperity of the native plant is important for both father and son. But despite this, there are often disagreements between them, because the father considers his son to be a frivolous person.
The Morning is Wiser Than Evening
1982
6.0Based on the work of Mykola Khvylovy "The Tale of the Sanatorium Zone". About political repressions in 1920s in Ukraine, the disappointment of revolutionary intellectuals in Communist ideals.
Tango of Death
1991
6.0Based on the work of Mykola Khvylovy "The Tale of the Sanatorium Zone". About political repressions in 1920s in Ukraine, the disappointment of revolutionary intellectuals in Communist ideals.
Tango of Death
1991
6.1A drama about a psychological duel between a police detective and career criminal.
Vertical Races
1982
10.0Life in a Ukrainian village after the Soviet revolution. A poetic ballad, which through the lens of a child's observations, dreams and hopes rely on the belief for a new and better future. Living with his grandfather and mother, little Mykhailyk has a great passion for books and hearing about a huge library at a nearby castle, he begins making plans to go there.
The Geese-Swans Fly
1974
NRA 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
NRA 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
9.0Once, a young man, Sandy, undertook to transport two strangers to Snake Island to the palace of the wealthy Hanover. The landlord, admiring the courage of a young sailor who was not afraid of the stormy weather, invited the young man to be his guest. Walking around the fabulous palace, Sandy accidentally finds out the story of Hanover.
Golden Chain
1987
9.0Once, a young man, Sandy, undertook to transport two strangers to Snake Island to the palace of the wealthy Hanover. The landlord, admiring the courage of a young sailor who was not afraid of the stormy weather, invited the young man to be his guest. Walking around the fabulous palace, Sandy accidentally finds out the story of Hanover.
Golden Chain
1987
7.5A sequel to the story "Гуси-Лебеді летять" ("Geese-swans fly"), about the life of one of the villages of Podillya - an optimistic story of Mikhail, whose childhood was spent in happiness and hope, despite the constant troubles that plagued his family. Together with his girlfriend Lyuba, the hero believes in a happy happy life, which his father Sebastian affirms with his deeds.
Generous Evening
1977
NRThe times of NEP. Nineteen-year-old Maria comes from a provincial town to the capital to be with those who are building a bright future. She gets a job, changes her name to a more romantic one - Bianca - and looks forward to meeting the great and pure love about which she has read a lot...
Down With Shame!
1994
NRThe times of NEP. Nineteen-year-old Maria comes from a provincial town to the capital to be with those who are building a bright future. She gets a job, changes her name to a more romantic one - Bianca - and looks forward to meeting the great and pure love about which she has read a lot...
Down With Shame!
1994
NROld Jew Reuven Koshman came to the Kyiv cliffs to say goodbye to the Dnipro River. He tells a random passerby about his life, about the city of Berdychiv, where he was born and lived most of his life. Then he moved with his family to Kyiv, but soon his children left for Israel. But Reuven stayed because he cherished the places where he was born, where he had lived his life, where his family had put down deep, strong roots.
Farewell, Dnipro!
1999
NROld Jew Reuven Koshman came to the Kyiv cliffs to say goodbye to the Dnipro River. He tells a random passerby about his life, about the city of Berdychiv, where he was born and lived most of his life. Then he moved with his family to Kyiv, but soon his children left for Israel. But Reuven stayed because he cherished the places where he was born, where he had lived his life, where his family had put down deep, strong roots.
Farewell, Dnipro!
1999
7.0Soon after the father leaves for the front, the mother dies - and the children are left alone. And then fourteen-year-old Lyubasha takes care of her younger brothers and sisters.
Lyubasha
1978
7.0Soon after the father leaves for the front, the mother dies - and the children are left alone. And then fourteen-year-old Lyubasha takes care of her younger brothers and sisters.
Lyubasha
1978
6.0Based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's "Crimean Stories": "In the Shackles of Satan", "On the Stone" and "Under the Minarets".
Tatar Triptych
2004
6.0Based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's "Crimean Stories": "In the Shackles of Satan", "On the Stone" and "Under the Minarets".
Tatar Triptych
2004
NR1930. A prominent figure of the Communist Party, the oppositionist Dmytro Karamazov, with his wife and a friend come to rest in a small provincial town on the banks of the Dnipro. Picturesque nature, neat houses with gardens - nothing portends trouble... Two beauties also come here, but not to rest. They should fulfill the plan of elimination of Karamazov.
The Woodcocks
1996
