Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba (
2009) | IMDb:
5.7
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
Starring:
Magdalena Mielcarz
,
Bohdan Stupka
,
Vladimir Vdovichenkov
,
Igor Petrenko
,
Mikhail Boyarskiy
,
Vladimir Ilin
Directed by:
Vladimir Bortko
18-14 (
2007) | IMDb:
6
Detective story set up in the time and place of young Pushkin, at Tsarskosel'sky Liceum.
Starring:
Stas Belozerov
,
Stepan Balakshin
,
Ivan Makarevich
,
Aleksandr Bykovsky
,
Sergey Druzyak
,
Ivan Martynov
Directed by:
Andres Puustusmaa
A Driver for Vera (
2004) | IMDb:
7.1
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.
Starring:
Igor Petrenko
,
Alena Babenko
,
Bohdan Stupka
,
Andrei Panin
,
Marina Golub
,
Valeriy Barinov
Directed by:
Pavel Chukhray
The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God (
2003) | IMDb:
5.5
In IX century Europe, on the brink of Poland's birth, a cruel prince, Popiel, murders his cousins to ensure his son's succession. His crimes lead to an uprising of his subjects lead by the former commander of Popiel's army, Piastun, and a young hunter and warrior, Ziemowit. Meanwhile Ziemowit falls in love with Dziwa, lovely girl who is to become a priestess in the local temple ...
Starring:
Daniel Olbrychski
,
Michal Zebrowski
,
Bohdan Stupka
,
Małgorzata Foremniak
,
Marina Aleksandrova
,
Jerzy Trela
A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa (
2002) | IMDb:
5.5
'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.
Starring:
Bohdan Stupka
,
Liudmyla Yefymenko
,
Nikita Dzhigurda
,
Viacheslav Dovzhenko
,
Viktor Demertash
,
Serhiy Romanyuk
Directed by:
Yurii Illienko
East/West (
1999) | IMDb:
7.4
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
Starring:
Catherine Deneuve
,
Sandrine Bonnaire
,
Oleg Menshikov
,
Sergei Bodrov Jr.
,
Tatyana Dogileva
,
Bohdan Stupka
Directed by:
Régis Wargnier