
Directing
Volodymyr Dakhno
Born — Died
1932-03-07 — 2006-07-28
Place of birth
Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Known for
Directing
Credits
30 titles
Volodymyr Dakhno was a Ukrainian animator, animation film director and scriptwriter. Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (1988), People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). Best known for the animation series Cossacks ("Як козаки..."). Worked at Kyivnaukfilm (currently, Ukranimafilm).
Known for
NRThis story takes place in a Ukrainian village. A thievish fox could not resist not eating some poultry. One night he crawled into a house to steal a chicken, but his actions awakened the owners of the house. In an attempt to flee, he fell into a trap. Only the Ouzel could solve all the fox’s problems.
The Fox and the Ouzel
1982
NRA comedic story. One day a man had a toothache. He did everything to reduce his suffering, but nothing helped. He went to the clinic, where there were many same sufferers like himself. However, the instrument sounds wafting from the dental office forced him to flee. He will have an adventure as a result of the realization that dentists can easily help, and there should be no fear to them.
Dental Story
1972
7.3Cossacks help the French musketeers to deliver the portrait of daughter of the Turkish sultan to the Dutch prince, that could marry her. Insidious cardinal Richelieu wants to blow off the plans of queen and equips pursuit.
How the Cossacks Helped Musketeers
1979
NRA curious dog dipped in his imagination, coming up with interesting comparisons to the surrounding things. And a dandelion scattered in the wind is hundreds of snowflakes, a bumblebee is an angry tiger. Having met other little animals that lose heart and can not come up with something for their liking, the dog decides to cheer them up and carry away with his game.
What Resembles What
1974
7.5Hraï, Oko and Tour come across extraterrestrials in search of oil to repair their saucer and be able to return home. Together, they cross Europe, find themselves defending Bulgaria invaded by enemies, discover an aqueduct in Italy and narrowly escape the Inquisition in Spain.
How the Cossacks Met Aliens
1987
7.0About a tiny bird that lived at the airport and understood very well everything that was connected with the territory and the work of the place. One day this sparrow met a dog that broke away from his masters. Together, they walk around and watch the planes, visit buffet and fully immerse themselves in the hectic life of arrivals and departures.
The Most Important Sparrow
1977
Behind the camera
NRThis story takes place in a Ukrainian village. A thievish fox could not resist not eating some poultry. One night he crawled into a house to steal a chicken, but his actions awakened the owners of the house. In an attempt to flee, he fell into a trap. Only the Ouzel could solve all the fox’s problems.
The Fox and the Ouzel
1982
NRA comedic story. One day a man had a toothache. He did everything to reduce his suffering, but nothing helped. He went to the clinic, where there were many same sufferers like himself. However, the instrument sounds wafting from the dental office forced him to flee. He will have an adventure as a result of the realization that dentists can easily help, and there should be no fear to them.
Dental Story
1972
7.3Cossacks help the French musketeers to deliver the portrait of daughter of the Turkish sultan to the Dutch prince, that could marry her. Insidious cardinal Richelieu wants to blow off the plans of queen and equips pursuit.
How the Cossacks Helped Musketeers
1979
7.3Cossacks help the French musketeers to deliver the portrait of daughter of the Turkish sultan to the Dutch prince, that could marry her. Insidious cardinal Richelieu wants to blow off the plans of queen and equips pursuit.
How the Cossacks Helped Musketeers
1979
NRA curious dog dipped in his imagination, coming up with interesting comparisons to the surrounding things. And a dandelion scattered in the wind is hundreds of snowflakes, a bumblebee is an angry tiger. Having met other little animals that lose heart and can not come up with something for their liking, the dog decides to cheer them up and carry away with his game.
What Resembles What
1974
7.5Hraï, Oko and Tour come across extraterrestrials in search of oil to repair their saucer and be able to return home. Together, they cross Europe, find themselves defending Bulgaria invaded by enemies, discover an aqueduct in Italy and narrowly escape the Inquisition in Spain.
How the Cossacks Met Aliens
1987
7.5Hraï, Oko and Tour come across extraterrestrials in search of oil to repair their saucer and be able to return home. Together, they cross Europe, find themselves defending Bulgaria invaded by enemies, discover an aqueduct in Italy and narrowly escape the Inquisition in Spain.
How the Cossacks Met Aliens
1987
7.0About a tiny bird that lived at the airport and understood very well everything that was connected with the territory and the work of the place. One day this sparrow met a dog that broke away from his masters. Together, they walk around and watch the planes, visit buffet and fully immerse themselves in the hectic life of arrivals and departures.
The Most Important Sparrow
1977
6.0A Cossack wandered in search of a better life, and his lifelong dream was a fast and beautiful horse. He had to meet him on the way a fortune-teller and a swamp waterman, which traded a horseshoe to a bunch of red peppers with the Cossack; and he had to beat the devil in cards and eventually find peace of mind in the family life with a beautiful Ukrainian girl.
How a Cossack Sought Happiness
1969
6.0A Cossack wandered in search of a better life, and his lifelong dream was a fast and beautiful horse. He had to meet him on the way a fortune-teller and a swamp waterman, which traded a horseshoe to a bunch of red peppers with the Cossack; and he had to beat the devil in cards and eventually find peace of mind in the family life with a beautiful Ukrainian girl.
How a Cossack Sought Happiness
1969
3.5A ridiculous and funny man nicknamed Parasolka have ancillary jobs in the circus, which he is trying to do and simulteniously watch everything going on behind the scenes, as well as during performances. Once the actors get into a difficult situation, and to everyone's amazement it is Parasolka who helps them out, thus earning himself a clown job. And then the circus director sees how Parasolka deftly juggles behind the scenes, he immediately realizes to send him to the arena, so he in turn performs with the shows of a juggler, a strongman, and a magician, although he is not entirely successful, but the audience liked him and they were laughing. As a result, Parasolka became a circus clown.
Parasolka In The Circus
1980
7.4A group of cossacks travels around Europe, playing football against the teams of different countries, each of which has their very unique playing style.
How the Cossacks Played Football
1970
6.8Three Cossacks preparing for a meal and gather to smoke their pipes as their meal cooks. Out of tobacco, one of them goes off to investigate smoke on the horizon. He is captured by foreign invaders and must be rescued by his friends.
How the Cossacks Were Cooking Kulish
1967
6.8Three Cossacks preparing for a meal and gather to smoke their pipes as their meal cooks. Out of tobacco, one of them goes off to investigate smoke on the horizon. He is captured by foreign invaders and must be rescued by his friends.
How the Cossacks Were Cooking Kulish
1967
7.1The Cossacks become involved in a dispute between the gods Zeus and Mars. Zeus wants to set up the Olympic games, while Mars wants to undermine him and start more wars. The Kozaks help Zeus and challenge Mars at the Games.
How the Cossacks Became Olympians
1978
7.1The Cossacks become involved in a dispute between the gods Zeus and Mars. Zeus wants to set up the Olympic games, while Mars wants to undermine him and start more wars. The Kozaks help Zeus and challenge Mars at the Games.
How the Cossacks Became Olympians
1978
7.8Animated adaptation of the magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Zaporozhian Cossacks.
Eneida
1991
6.8The final episode, released after the fall of the Soviet Union, features the Cossacks as the parents of an entire children’s hockey team. While hosting the Canadian hockey team, they have to thwart their former pirate enemies once again.
How the Cossacks Played Hockey
1995
NR"Stone on the road" is a collection of animated miniatures from 1968 by the Kyivnaukfilm studio. The collection includes four debut films: "Demagog" (another name is "Dialogue"), "Stone on the Road", "Column", "Controversy".
Stone on the Road
1968
7.1Cossacks cooked borscht, but ran out of salt, and what kind of taste without salt? They go to the fair, where they find out that the Chumaks who traded the salt, were robbed by the Evil Pan (local feudal lord). In this series, the Cossacks, fighting off the Evil Pan and his servants, try to bring the stolen salt to the bazaar in order to transfer it to the hands of the rightful owners - the Chumaks.
How the Cossacks Bought Salt
1975
7.1Cossacks cooked borscht, but ran out of salt, and what kind of taste without salt? They go to the fair, where they find out that the Chumaks who traded the salt, were robbed by the Evil Pan (local feudal lord). In this series, the Cossacks, fighting off the Evil Pan and his servants, try to bring the stolen salt to the bazaar in order to transfer it to the hands of the rightful owners - the Chumaks.
How the Cossacks Bought Salt
1975
6.7The husband prepares for the marathon, rests, and meanwhile the wife prepares food, feeds the children and husband, cleans and so on. During the competition, it is she who produces amazing results of speed and ingenuity, accompanying and saving her husband at all stages. It turned out that despite his stocky height, he is a helpless child who cannot run a marathon without help, but as a result, fame and recognition go to him. Volodymyr Dakhno worked on this film with the master of graphic grotesque artist Radna Sakhaltuyev. The social pro-feminist content is wrapped in an ironic, somewhat psychedelic form.
Family Marathon
1981
NRAbout how Detective Teddy tried to find out why the aliens did not want to come into contact with the inhabitants of the Earth.
The Case Is Assigned To Detective Teddy. Case #002: Space Riddle
1986
6.0Short humorous sketches. The first is called "solid character", and it describes the history of a tough chick, which was brought to a hairdresser for the first time. The second is about the uncomplicated life of a bird, which, however, did not prevent her from publishing own memoirs. The last story, "Fathers and Sons" tells of the relationship of adults and offspring.
In The Bird World
1974
7.5Tur regrets being single until he meets a charming maiden to whom he promises a new pair of boots. He gets trapped at a witch’s sabbath hosted by the devil, who promises him a pair of boots in exchange for his soul.
How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding
1984
7.5Tur regrets being single until he meets a charming maiden to whom he promises a new pair of boots. He gets trapped at a witch’s sabbath hosted by the devil, who promises him a pair of boots in exchange for his soul.
How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding
1984
NRAnimation for adults. Includes short stories: "Duet", "Big Laundry", "Point of View", "Dreams, Dreams".
From The Life Of Birds
1985
7.0The Cossacks save a group of Ukrainian maidens who are kidnapped by pirates while celebrating Ivana Kupala. En route they visit Ancient Greece, Egypt, and India.
How the Cossacks Rescued Brides
1973
NRSo what happened after the day of Man’s Creation? Do you really think that after His well-deserved day of rest, God chose to follow a policy of non-intervention? No — He wanted to teach humanity the most important skill and weapon of all: the ability to think. What came of this noble idea — find out in this ironic fantasy.
The Eighth Day, or the First Lesson in Thought
1971
7.0Two bear cubs have disappeared in the city. Detective Teddy is entrusted with the case of their search.
The Case Is Assigned To Detective Teddy. Case #001: The Brown And The White
1976
