Ukrainian Films on DVD

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Lemmy Caution
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Re: Ukrainian Films on DVD

#51 Post by Lemmy Caution » Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:32 am

Here's what Google translate told me:

"Steps of Democracy: Critical School of Ukrainian documentary 1987-1995" was presented March 26, 2014 as part of the 11th International Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights. Consists of five short documentary films shot between 1987 and 1995.
Total running time: 120 minutes. 2 DVDs.

1. Steps of Democracy, 1992, 30 mins
Directed by George Shkliarevskyi

2. Farewell CINEMA, 1995, 30 mins
Directed by Israel Goldstein

3. Tomorrow is a Holiday, 1987, 20 mins
Director Sergey Bukovsky

4. WALL, 1988, 20 mins
Directed by Israel Goldstein

5. DAH, 1989, 20 mins
Director Sergey Bukovsky

It has brief descriptions of each film.
I have no idea what DAH means

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L.A.
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Re: Ukrainian Films on DVD

#52 Post by L.A. » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:45 am

New DVD publication produced by Dovzhenko Centre called CHORNOBYL [IN]VISIBLE. It has English subtitles.

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Re: Ukrainian Films on DVD

#53 Post by L.A. » Thu May 28, 2020 2:24 pm

Dovzhenko Centre is apparently no more. :shock:

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Re: Ukrainian Films on DVD

#54 Post by TMDaines » Fri May 29, 2020 9:29 am

That's sad, but their website is still live. They've not done any disk publications for a while.

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Re: Ukrainian Films on DVD

#55 Post by L.A. » Fri May 29, 2020 1:18 pm

TMDaines wrote:
Fri May 29, 2020 9:29 am
That's sad, but their website is still live. They've not done any disk publications for a while.
Mikhail Kaufman's Ukrainian Dilogy is probably one of the last disc publications they did. I think it was nominated as release of the year at Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards couple years ago.

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Re: Ukrainian Films on DVD

#56 Post by Cinephile1 » Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:01 pm

Does anybody here know whether those gratis giveaway DVD box-sets discussed earlier on this thread are still relevant? Thanks!

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TMDaines
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Re: Ukrainian Films on DVD

#57 Post by TMDaines » Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:50 am

Yeah, pretty much all of the films in them are unreleased elsewhere. I still am lucky enough to have mine. Luckily they all made their way to the backchannels and elsewhere on the web.

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Re: Ukrainian Films on DVD

#58 Post by Cinephile1 » Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:34 am

TMDaines wrote:
Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:50 am
Yeah, pretty much all of the films in them are unreleased elsewhere. I still am lucky enough to have mine. Luckily they all made their way to the backchannels and elsewhere on the web.
Have tried to email the institution mentioned earlier, so far, no reply. Earlier you mentioned having the specific address of someone who can assist, is that still relevant? Thanks. I find it sad that, as discussed above, box-sets like that seem to almost invariably get distributed only to people who have very little actual interest in them (diplomats and such) rather than to cinephiles who actually do.

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Re: Ukrainian Films on DVD

#59 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:40 am

Here's an interesting thing I just came across in my local supermarket(!) - the UK label Dazzler has put out the "Ukrainian State Film Agency" produced (so make of that what you will!) film Sniper: The White Raven out on DVD, which is based around the previous Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.

I had not been too aware of Dazzler Media until recently. They seem to be primarily focused on TV (a lot of Sky series with a few BBC titles sprinkled in. And did you know there was apparently a SyFy series using the Day of the Dead name (NSFW) made last year? And a new TV adaptation of Das Boot? That was news to me), but they did recently release Paul Schrader's The Card Counter and Sean Baker's Red Rocket on Blu-ray, so they appear to have some sort of distribution arrangement with Universal going on for their new releases.

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