Odessa Film Studio
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Odessa Film Studio is a Ukrainian
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 film studio in Odessa
Odessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

. It is partially owned by a government and supervised by the Department of State property fund of Ukraine together with the Ministry of Culture. Together with Dovzhenko Film Studios they are the only state-owned and major film producers in the country. The studio is located at Frantsuzky bulvar 33 (33 French Boulevard), Odessa, Ukraine. In a close vicinity to it is located a smaller film studio House of Mask.

History

It was founded in 1919 as a film section of the Red Army
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

's 41st Division on the basis of nationalized private studios.

Description

The studio is located in the downtown right near the shore of Black Sea
Black Sea
The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...

 covering some 7 hectares (17.3 acre) and consisting of three pavilions of 600 square metres (6,458.3 sq ft), 432 square metres (4,650 sq ft), and 240 square metres (2,583.3 sq ft). Inside the studio's building is located another film studio, Vira Kholodna Film Studio and the Odessa Film School. The Odessa Film Studio has its own cinema theater, U-Cinema which is also located in the same building.

On the territory of the studio there is a Museum of the Cinema
Museum of the Cinema (Odessa, Ukraine)
The museum of cinema - a section of NUCU is located on the Odessa film studio, in an historic mansion. Before the revolution, it belonged to Demidovoy – San-Donato....

, in which you can find out about many interesting facts on the history of the cinema. Here you can find historic materials, from the invention of cinema, to the postmodern, digital and avant garde.

Selected directors

1919-1925
  • Myron Grossman (1908-1918) (considered a founder of Odessa cinematography)
  • Les Kurbas
    Les Kurbas
    Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas , a Ukrainian movie and theater director, is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century...

     (1922-1925)
  • Georgiy Tasin, the first studio director in 1922

1926-1936
  • Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  • Isaak Babel

1936-1954
  • Vladimir Braun
  • Amvrosiy Buchma

1955-1965
  • Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova
    Kira Muratova is a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress. She was born in 1934 in Soroca, Bessarabia, Romania . She was born to a Romanian mother and a Russian father. Muratova is known for her unusual and original directorial style...

     and Oleksandr Muratov
  • Vadym Kostromenko, currently the director of the museum
  • Vadym Avloshenko

1966-1996
  • Stanislav Govorukhin
    Stanislav Govorukhin
    Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin has been one of the most popular Soviet and Russian film directors since the 1960s...

  • Natalya Zbandut (Medyuk)
  • Mykhailo Kats

Selected actors

1919-1925
  • Vera Kholodnaya
    Vera Kholodnaya
    Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya was the first star of Russian silent cinema...

     (1914-1919) (featured in 35 films)
  • Daria Zerkalova

1926-1936
  • Natalya Uzhviy
  • Matviy Lyarov

1966-1996
  • Vladimir Vysotsky
    Vladimir Vysotsky
    Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often humorous street...


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