Rollan Serhiyenko

Directing

Rollan Serhiyenko

Born 1936-01-19 · Snovsk, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine

Rollan Serhiyenko was a Ukrainian film director. He was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize for his film work.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Don't Ask Whom the Bell Tolls poster
NR

Follows the Chornobyl disaster and its victims.

Don't Ask Whom the Bell Tolls

1989

Don't Ask Whom the Bell Tolls poster
NR

Follows the Chornobyl disaster and its victims.

Don't Ask Whom the Bell Tolls

1989

White Clouds poster
8.0

A man is notified of his father's imminent death. He travels to his father in a remote Ukrainian village, recalling his childhood during the disastrous forced collectivization and artificial famine (Holodomor) of the 1930s by the Soviet regime. The film was heavily cut due to censorship by the Soviet Government.

White Clouds

1968

Discover Yourself poster
9.0

Documentary about the famous Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhoriy Skovoroda, which was banned by Soviet censorship. The film only reached the screens 15 years later, during Perestroika era.

Discover Yourself

1972

The Second Declaration of Love poster
NR

The documentary about the destinies of women who lived or are living in different regions of Ukraine, and explores their destinies in the present. The film tells about the fate of the heroines of the film "Declaration of Love" (1966) Tekla Barmashova (killed in 1922), veterans Elizaveta Marapulets (died in 1982), Maria Lahunova (died in 1995), agronomist Maria Molodyk-Kryvokulska, milkmaid, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR Nina Sribna-Babenko, violinist Lyubov Chaikovska and glider, master of sports Zinaida Solovei. Female heroines and their loved ones share memories, problems, talk about modern Ukraine.

The Second Declaration of Love

1999

Nicholas Roerich poster
NR

Documentary film dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Nicholas Roerich's birth.

Nicholas Roerich

1976

Threshold poster
8.0

Two years after the Chornobyl nuclear accident survivors come together to remember the aftermath of the tragedy.

Threshold

1988

No artwork available
NR

In the dead of night, four officials are playing screwball. The originality of their game lies in the fact that each card of the deck is a photo of an official, their colleague.…

Cards

1964

No artwork available
NR

In the dead of night, four officials are playing screwball. The originality of their game lies in the fact that each card of the deck is a photo of an official, their colleague.…

Cards

1964

Chornobyl: Funeral Feast poster
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The film marks the occasion of the 800-year anniversary of Chornobyl: an epitaph to the nuclear power station tragedy. Lina Kostenko, the Ukrainian poetess, joins former residents on their annual trip to the dead town.

Chornobyl: Funeral Feast

1993

And so I write. Ostap Vyshnia poster
7.0

Documentary film about the outstanding Ukrainian humorist Ostap Vyshnia.

And so I write. Ostap Vyshnia

1982

Happiness of Nikifor Bubnov poster
10.0

Peasant Nikifor Bubnov goes to the mining regions of Donbas to earn money for a horse. People working nearby become his friends - with them he supports and develops the Stakhanov movement.

Happiness of Nikifor Bubnov

1983

On-Board 812 poster
NR

About the military exercises of submariners of the Pacific Navy of the USSR.

On-Board 812

1959

Declaration of Love poster
NR

Women of Ukraine of the 20th century — residents of villages, collective farms, and cities of the Soviet republic — talk about themselves. The context of the great story is revealed through tragic, not at all bookish, first-person narratives and documentary footage of menial labor in the fields and construction sites.

Declaration of Love

1966

Chornobyl – 2001 – The Testament poster
NR

Here, on April 26, 1986, at one twenty-three a.m., the largest man-made disaster occurred, the biggest that people know and remember. How did this accident change human destinies? How has it affected all of us?

Chornobyl – 2001 – The Testament

2001

Chornobyl – 2001 – The Testament poster
NR

Here, on April 26, 1986, at one twenty-three a.m., the largest man-made disaster occurred, the biggest that people know and remember. How did this accident change human destinies? How has it affected all of us?

Chornobyl – 2001 – The Testament

2001

Approaching the Apocalypse. Chernobyl is Nearby poster
NR

Immediately after the accident, two film groups, one of which was headed by the film director, were the first to break into the "zone", overcoming official barriers.

Approaching the Apocalypse. Chernobyl is Nearby

1991

Approaching the Apocalypse. Chernobyl is Nearby poster
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Immediately after the accident, two film groups, one of which was headed by the film director, were the first to break into the "zone", overcoming official barriers.

Approaching the Apocalypse. Chernobyl is Nearby

1991

The Bell of Chornobyl poster
7.8

The first full-length film about the Chornobyl tragedy, filmed in May-September 1986. The authors did not set themselves the task of showing an exhaustive picture of what happened in Chornobyl. They sought to capture the testimonies of people directly involved in the tragedy, the lessons of which have yet to be realized.

The Bell of Chornobyl

1987

Vernadsky's Law poster
NR

We rush to search for the truth in distant lands, but it often turns out that its solution lives next to us. We drive along Vernadsky Avenue without thinking about what secrets these scientists have discovered, because we get used to words without thinking about their meaning.

Vernadsky's Law

1983

The Bell Tolls for You poster
NR

Follows the Chornobyl disaster.

The Bell Tolls for You

1989

The Bell Tolls for You poster
NR

Follows the Chornobyl disaster.

The Bell Tolls for You

1989

Chornobyl. Epilogue poster
NR

The film is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl NPP.

Chornobyl. Epilogue

1996

Chornobyl. Epilogue poster
NR

The film is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl NPP.

Chornobyl. Epilogue

1996