Movies and TvShows featuring "ukrainian-folklore" theme.

In the vast Ukrainian forests, Mavka is chosen as the Guardian of the Forest and its sacred Heart. When she falls in love with Lukash, an unassuming village boy, their union faces formidable obstacles. Kalyna, driven by greed, threatens the Forest and the love between Mavka and Lukash. Will they be able to defend their love and save the forest?

A young sound engineer embarks on a road trip across Ukraine to record traditional Ukrainian folk music. Along the way, he encounters eccentric characters and delves into the country's rich folklore. With his cat as his only companion, he navigates through picturesque landscapes, encounters strange situations, and discovers the bittersweet beauty of his homeland.

Hutsul Girl Ksenia tells the story of a young Ukrainian girl who returns to her hometown in the Carpathian Mountains. There, she reconnects with her heritage and falls in love. Set in the 1930s, the film explores themes of love, eccentricity, and the beauty of Ukrainian folklore. Adapted from a play or musical, Hutsul Girl Ksenia is a delightful blend of comedy, music, and romance.

Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales.

When the Trees Fall follows the journey of a traumatized woman in a Ukrainian village as she navigates the challenges of domestic violence, symbolism, and first love. Set against the backdrop of a mysterious forest and the symbolism of mud and horses, the film offers a surreal and dreamlike portrayal of a woman's struggle to find herself and overcome her past. With its themes of misery and Ukrainian folklore, this movie explores the complex emotions of a little girl and the widow of the village. It also delves into the outdoor-sex and surrealism aspects of the village life, creating a unique and captivating cinematic experience.

Set in 18th-century Ukraine, the film tells a story of comedic fantasy and romance, involving witches, goblins, demons, and a blacksmith. The plot revolves around the adventures of the villagers and their encounters with supernatural elements, while also exploring themes of love and affection.

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

A humorous story-musical about a pumpkin, the host of a vegetable garden, his wife and many relatives and friends. They all live nearby and often solve some of their living problems. Cucumbers want to play, and the carrot-girls are waiting for worthy suitors. Here there are festivals and folk rituals and the work around which life revolves of vegetable villagers.

This cartoon is based on a humorous Ukrainian folk song about how wives decided to sell their disgraced husbands. One wife wants to get rid of the reveler, the other - from the drunkard, the young woman is tired of the old man, the worker is lazy, and the tall - the husband is too small in stature.

The Mavka, a mystical and dangerous forest nymph, falls in love with the biologist Lukyan instead of destroying him in the mysterious forest lake, where mermaids and other nymphs await men's souls. And they are ready to do anything to keep the Mavka on the dark side.

Song of the Forest is a romantic drama based on Ukrainian folklore. It tells the story of a forbidden love that blossoms between a human and a forest spirit, amidst a backdrop of enchantment and social injustice. The film explores themes of love, revenge, and the power of nature.

Mamay draws on traditional Ukranian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet-like love story and parable about chivalry and the struggle for freedom. Hundreds of years ago, in the wild steppes of Crimea that form an uneasy border between East and West, Europe and Asia, nomad and farmer, the proud Cossack Mamay falls in love with the Tatar beauty Omai. The title, like the storyline, holds a variety of different meanings taken from different cultures. In Turkic languages, it means "no one," but it was also the name of a famous Mongol conqueror, the great grandson of Ghengis-Khan. In Persian legends, mamay literally means "the spirit of the steppes. "