Volodymyr Dakhno

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

The Fox and the Ouzel poster
NR

This 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

Dental Story poster
NR

A 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

How the Cossacks Helped Musketeers poster
7.3

Cossacks 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

What Resembles What poster
NR

A 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

How the Cossacks Met Aliens poster
7.5

Hraï, 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

The Most Important Sparrow poster
7.0

About 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

The Fox and the Ouzel poster
NR

This 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

Dental Story poster
NR

A 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

How the Cossacks Helped Musketeers poster
7.3

Cossacks 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

How the Cossacks Helped Musketeers poster
7.3

Cossacks 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

What Resembles What poster
NR

A 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

How the Cossacks Met Aliens poster
7.5

Hraï, 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

How the Cossacks Met Aliens poster
7.5

Hraï, 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

The Most Important Sparrow poster
7.0

About 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

How a Cossack Sought Happiness poster
6.0

A 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

How a Cossack Sought Happiness poster
6.0

A 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

Parasolka In The Circus poster
3.5

A 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

How the Cossacks Played Football poster
7.4

A 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

How the Cossacks Were Cooking Kulish poster
6.8

Three 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

How the Cossacks Were Cooking Kulish poster
6.8

Three 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

How the Cossacks Became Olympians poster
7.1

The 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

How the Cossacks Became Olympians poster
7.1

The 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

Eneida poster
7.8

Animated 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

How the Cossacks Played Hockey poster
6.8

The 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

Stone on the Road poster
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

How the Cossacks Bought Salt poster
7.1

Cossacks 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

How the Cossacks Bought Salt poster
7.1

Cossacks 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

Family Marathon poster
6.7

The 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

The Case Is Assigned To Detective Teddy. Case #002: Space Riddle poster
NR

About 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

In The Bird World poster
6.0

Short 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

How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding poster
7.5

Tur 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

How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding poster
7.5

Tur 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

From The Life Of Birds poster
NR

Animation for adults. Includes short stories: "Duet", "Big Laundry", "Point of View", "Dreams, Dreams".

From The Life Of Birds

1985

How the Cossacks Rescued Brides poster
7.0

The 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

The Eighth Day, or the First Lesson in Thought poster
NR

So 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

The Case Is Assigned To Detective Teddy. Case #001: The Brown And The White poster
7.0

Two 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