Oleksandr Rudynskyi

Acting

Oleksandr Rudynskyi

Born 1996-07-23 · Mykolaiv, Ukraine

Rudynskyi attended the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University from 2014 to 2018. After graduating, he performed as Sir Toby Belch in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Theatre on the Left bank of the Dnipro. In recent years Rudynskyi has performed in roles for both film and television, including the title role in the Canadian short film Goodbye Golovin, which later won Best Short Film at the Odesa International Film Festival in 2020, the Netflix series The Decameron, a recurring role in the 2024 Paramount+ with Showtime series The Agency starring Michael Fassbender and the lead role in BAFTA award winning short film Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Acting credits

Beasts poster
NR

The young NKVD associate Athanathiys Lapin by the accident caused the falling of Leader's portrait, the portrait of Joseph Stalin, while settling down at the new place. When he gets into such situation, he adjoins the system for real, becoming a part of what he didn't even expect.

Beasts

2019

Red Rue Express poster
NR

A romantic comedy that modernizes and reimagines one of the most famous and vivid Ukrainian national symbols, Chervona Ruta, and turns it into a new cultural phenomenon.

Red Rue Express

2026

Gundam poster
NR

Rival mech pilots fight on opposite sides of decades-long war between Earth and its space former colonies. As shifting allegiances and a growing threat set them on a collision course for one another, these pilots are pulled into a high-stakes race across the stars that could define the fate of humanity.

Gundam

Sad Portraits poster
10.0

Love triangle between a cashier and two security guards of a small supermarket in a provincial town.

Sad Portraits

2021

The Best Weekend poster
6.7

A guy from Germany becomes a volunteer at the festival to make a female organizer fall in love with him but instead loses an elderly headliner of Atlas Weekend. Guys from Kryvyi Rig organize a legendary stag party but quarrel like children and fight like adults. A young girl from Odessa looks for her rocker dad who she hasn’t seen and instead constructed an ideal image of for 10 years. A career-climber from Lviv arrives for the most important interview in her life but her younger brother disrupts absolutely all of her plans. This is going to be the craziest trip of our characters and their Best Weekend!

The Best Weekend

2022

I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming poster
NR

The love of Olya and Oleh, a young queer Ukrainian couple, is put to the test when one partner’s gender transition collides with Russia’s full-scale invasion. As war narrows and challenges the boundaries of masculinity and femininity, they struggle to preserve their bond and sense of self. What does it mean to be a man in a country that is fighting for its identity and survival?

I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

2027

Two Sisters poster
6.5

Two sisters set out from Warsaw to Kharkiv to pick up their seriously injured father.

Two Sisters

2025

Goodbye Golovin poster
4.7

For Ian Golovin, the death of his father is the chance at a new life outside his native country. As he prepares to leave and bid farewell to his sister, he is forced to face his decision — why he is always blindly moving forward and what he is leaving behind.

Goodbye Golovin

2019

Honeymoon poster
7.2

February 23, 2022, a small town near Kyiv. Taras (35) and Olia (32) spend the first night in their new apartment. At dawn, they wake up from the explosions. They fail to leave the town on time, meanwhile, the Russian troops arrange headquarters in their building. The couple finds themselves trapped in their flat with no electricity, water, and mobile connection. For the next 5 days, Taras and Olia will explore the black abyss of real intimacy between two people and face crucial existential questions in mortal danger.

Honeymoon

2025

Nightmare Director, or School #5 poster
8.5

Leonid Pryhunov is dismissed from the post of deputy head of the colony for educational work. To get back to his favorite business, he has to hold the position of director of one of the hottest schools in his hometown for several months. Leonid accepts the offer and goes through... personal hell.

Nightmare Director, or School #5

2019

Amber Cops poster
6.0

Patrolman Maksym, who had dreamed of following law and order since childhood, was unexpectedly transferred from Kyiv to a small village in the Zhytomyr Region. There, the metropolitan policeman and his new partner Bohdan challenge the amber mafia. Will Max be able to find common ground with the colorful local cops and defeat the omnipotent Amber Baron? But this is not the only problem of a brave patrolman, who still needs to regain the trust of his beloved girl.

Amber Cops

2021

Rhino poster
6.5

Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.

Rhino

2021

Legends of Charmswood poster
NR

In the mythical land of Charmswood, young Marco is pursued by the forces of the wicked Lord Morok, catapulting him into an epic adventure that soon involves a stoic warrior and comical sorceress.

Legends of Charmswood

2022

Rock, Paper, Scissors poster
8.1

Based on a true story — Ivan and his father operate a makeshift hospital at the frontline of war, but when enemy soldiers close in, Ivan faces an impossible choice to protect his father, their patients, and everything they stand for.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

2024

To Believe poster
8.0

The film takes place among the prisoners in the camp, who are secretly praying and being bullied by the guards. At the same time, the screen shows the lives of believers who, while remaining in the Vinnytsia region, continue their quiet struggle for faith. Based on real events.

To Believe

2021

Malevych poster
5.0

What stands behind the Black Square, painted in 1915 by the obsessive artist Kazymyr Malevych? For his competitors, a fraud, for the Soviet regime, a secret code, for one woman, a love letter, for the people of Ukraine – a prophecy…

Malevych

2025

The Homeowners' Dilemma poster
6.9

Residents of a Ukrainian apartment building gather to discuss the purchase of a common generator for the winter. However, its capacity is not enough for everyone.

The Homeowners' Dilemma

2024

Post-Traumatic Rhapsody poster
10.0

Sashko, a soldier of a Ukrainian volunteer battalion, survives after a firing under Ilovajsk and tries to get to his fellowmen. Along the way, he meets the most unexpected companions and enemies.

Post-Traumatic Rhapsody

2018

Noble Tramps poster
7.2

A funny story of Lviv batiars (noble tramps) who live with the slogan: "To love Lviv, women, and jokes". To make their lives bright, they resort to various adventures, while remaining positive heroes. Unexpectedly, the batiars become guardians of a young beauty, and their adventures are gaining new momentum. The film's events take place in Lviv in 1938-1939.

Noble Tramps

2018

Morshyn's 11 poster
5.6

Everyone knows that Morshyn was built on a meteorite crash site, which is rich in a rare metal osmium. Wanting to earn easy money, Snizhana decides to deceive everyone and take possession of a valuable object. Anything could have happened if 11 children from Morshyn had not gotten in her way. Uniting into a single front for the sake of a greater goal, they start fighting injustice

Morshyn's 11

2019

Stay Online poster
7.3

Katia, a volunteer from Kyiv fighting against the invasion of Ukraine, uses a laptop donated to the resistance and comes into contact with the young son of the computer’s original owner, who is desperately in search of his missing parents. Her attempts to help the child will see her risk all she holds dear.

Stay Online

2024

Family Squad poster
NR

A case of mistaken identity lands solitary gas attendant Serhii in heaven. To earn his way back, he's tasked with locating an individual whose life he can positively impact, spurring his pursuit to reconnect with the father he never met.

Family Squad

Five Minutes poster
7.0

An absurd black comedy about the ridiculous incident during a funeral. None of the guests could possibly imagine that the body embarked on an unlikely journey. Nobody except for the tractor driver, a pair of poachers, two fishing control officers, and the staff of the local hospital. One can only wonder how this bizarre funeral might end.

Five Minutes

2018

The Bun Family poster
NR

During World War II, a father, mother, and son fought for Ukraine's freedom in their own ways. The father fought and died in the ranks of the Red Army, the mother worked as a secretary for the Union of Ukrainian Women (the largest women's organization in Galicia), and 16-year-old Mykhailo was a staunch supporter of anti-Soviet propaganda, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Bun Family

2016