Assassination: An Autumn Murder

in Munich

Ukraine 1995, 110 min, Director: Oles Yanchuk

Writers: Vasili Portyak, Oles Yanchuk

Stars: Leonid Bakshtayev, Mykola Boklan, Valeriy

Legin, Marina Mogilevskaya, Oles Sanin, Yaroslav

Muka

Ukrainian with English subtitles

The flood of refugees at the conclusion of World War II grew to near Biblical proportions. Europe was a

shattered continent from east to west. Ukraine bore the brunt of the destruction: its people displaced,

divided, and forced to flee their native land in the face of new Soviet aggression.

Thousands of Ukrainians, ‘Ostarbeiters’ (Eastern workers), once-interned soldiers awaiting to learn their

fate, forced out by the war, find themselves in occupied Germany’s western Allied sector. Into their midst

arrive soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army who battled their way to the Western sector, joining the sea

of Ukrainians in the displaced persons camps of Western Europe.

In is in the midst of this historical upheaval that the drama of ASSASSINATION unfolds.

Having survived the hardships of both the war and the liberation struggle, the main characters find

themselves in the free world, but still under threat: the displaced persons camps of World War II have

become yet another arena for the political battle waged by the Soviet NKVD in an effort to take possession of

people’s destinies and very souls. They are forced to once again rise in opposition to Moscow’s reign of

terror. In the dramatic events that follow, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander is killed, his death

saving the lives of his fellow freedom fighters.

The film moving depicts the plight of these refugees who overcame hardship in a foreign land to rebuild their

lives anew.

ASSASSINATION’s compelling plot dramatizes the real-life struggle with the Russian agents responsible

for the murder of Stepan Bandera, leader of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) in Munich

in 1959.

Holod 33 (1991)

115 min - Drama | History

Director: Oles Yanchuk

Writers:

Vasil Barka (novel), Sergey Dyachenko

Stars:

Galina Sulima, Georgi Morozyuk, Aleksey

Gorbunov, Maksim Koval, Alyonka Kovtun,

Leonid Yanovsky

This film looks at the artificial famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine through the eyes of a single family.

The famine, which killed millions of people, was the result of a Soviet policy intended to punish

Ukrainians for opposing the collectivization of their farms.

The Company of Heroes

Director: Oles Yanchuk

Writers: Yuriy Borets (novel),

Vasili Portyak (scenario)

Stars: Iryna Bardakova, Mykola Boklan, Oleg

Drach, Igor Gnezdilov, Yaroslav Muka, Ihor

Pisnyi, Kateryna Kisten

Country: Ukraine

Runtime: 97 min

Genres: Action | Drama | History | War

One hundred soldiers of the Ukrainian

Insurgent Army, led by Michael Duda

(Hromenko) fearlessly fighting with the

Bolshevics and with the Nazis.

Award-winning film director Oles Yanchuk's

powerful account of personal courage and

determination in the face of insurmountable

odds. The true story of Roman Shukhevych, the

leader of the underground army that fought

against both of the Twentieth Century's most

devastating war machines, the Nazis and the

Soviets

In 1950, long after most of the weary world laid down its arms in the aftermath of the Second World War, a

battle for freedom continued to be waged, shrouded behind the newly drawn Iron Curtain.

The Undefeated is the true story of General Roman Shukhevych (Gregory Hlady) a genteel family man

forced by brutal circumstances and his own sense of honor and duty to lead the fight to deliver his people

from the savageries of both the Nazis and Soviets.

Producer and director Oles Yanchuk, hailed by both the NY Times and Time Magazine for his heart-

wrenching film, Famine 33, delivers an internationally renowned team of filmmakers and artists to bring to

the screen the epic story of Roman Shukhevych.

Set against the backdrop of an underground war, Yanchuk explores the complex character of Shukhevych,

his revulsion at ethnic discrimination, his love of music, his genius in combat. The film smolders with the

passion of the man and ignites the viewer with the same fire that Shukhevych fueled in his countrymen - the

unquenchable flame of freedom.

Filmed on location in the exotic and mysterious Carpathian Mountains, the tarnished but still opulent cities

of Odesa and Kyiv, and the architecturally stunning city of Lviv, The Undefeated is a movie filled with

explosive action and suspense. It is a personal story of faith and commitment and ultimately, the victory of

freedom over tyranny.

CAST:

Gregory Hlady...................Roman Shukhevych

Victoria Malektorovych.......Halyna Dydyk

Svitlana Vatamaniuk..........Natalka Shukhevych

Viktor Stepanov................NKVD Major

Volodymyr Horiansky..........NKVD Agent Pashkevych

Serhiy Romaniuk................NKVD General

Heorhiy Moroziuk...............Underground cell leader Holub

Vladyka Andrey (2008)

129 min - Biography | Drama | History

Director: Oles Yanchuk

Writers: Mykhailo Shayevych, Oles

Yanchuk

Stars: Sergey Romanyuk, Yevhen

Nyshchuk, Yaroslav Muka, Oksana

Voronina, Irina Mak

Country: Ukraine

Story about Metropolitan of UGCC Andrew Sheptytsky who opposed repressive totalitarian

regimes of Stalin and Hitler and chose the path of service to God and people.