Such a historical event as the Battle of Kruty gave rise to a huge number of myths, legends, and speculations of various kinds, many of which have made the realities of the battle forgettable. Instead, the myth of 300 students who alone resisted the Bolshevik invasion and almost all died came to the fore. What were the real events?

The National Honored Academic Dance Ensemble of Ukraine named after Pavlo Virsky, People's Artists of Ukraine Natalia Sumska, Nina Matvienko, Vasyl Basha, and others took part in the filming.

The main character is a war veteran struggling to adapt to civilian life after participating in fierce battles. He finds it hard to find his place even in his own home. After a fight in a pub, he is imprisoned at a military facility and then sent home, where memories, physical and emotional traumas, and the sounds of war haunt him.

Peaceful life seems alien to him, and people who have not seen war cause him incomprehension and alienation. The hero tries to adapt by working on a script for a military video, but even this work brings him no comfort. Friends and acquaintances only exacerbate his inner conflict, imagining war as something distant.

The first ever solo movie made entirely by one person. Vincent Mettel has played eight roles and has worked on the site for another 19 positions.

Successful young film actor on the threshold of world fame. The thing for small is to be casted by a Hollywood director known for his quirks. What talents to show and what to keep quiet about? What better way to present yourself if you are not one in your body but you, well, at least seven more? A unique chain of events and adventures in the life of a person with eight personalities with a happy ending! Not very happy ... not for all eight. «The main thing is that nobody interferes! These others ... these seven ... what if they show up at the most inopportune time? But no, they won't mind. And by the way, the room seems familiar. Have I been here before? Something I will not remember ... The devil, in the morning I can not get rid of the feeling that someone wants to kill me. "

Students bring Ukrainian cinema to an abandoned cinema "Ukraine", which is located in a small country town. Young filmmakers are bringing the cinema back to life and drawing the community's attention to cinema, trying to understand what will happen if Ukrainian cinema is revived.

The film is part of an almanac of short films by the Crossroads.

Ostarbayter is a German term for the identification of persons who were exported by the Nazis from the eastern occupied territories, mainly from the Reich Commissariat Ukraine, during the Second World War for forced labor in Germany.

The exportation of workers to the Reich was not foreseen by fascist occupation plans. However, when it became clear that a rapid victory on the Eastern Front would not be achieved, in November 1941 the forced deportation of workers to Germany began. For 1941-44, the total number of Ostarbeiters was 2.8 million, including 2.2 million Ukrainians. Most of the Ostarbeiters worked in private enterprises.

The productivity of ostarbeiters was quite high and was 60-80% among men compared to the productivity of German workers, and among women - 90-100%. In Germany, ostarbeiters lived in special camps under the strict supervision of administrative and police special services. Wages accounted for 30% of the wage paid by a German worker, of which the bulk went to food and housing. For trying to escape, ostarbeiters were punished by death or detention at a concentration camp.

Ostarbiteers wore the obligatory discriminatory "Ost." In June 1944, they were replaced by national honors - for Ukrainians - a trident. Most of the Ostarbeiters were forcibly repatriated in the USSR after the war, where almost all were accused of "treason" and repressed.

Movie 78 from the movie Unknown Ukraine. Essays on our history.

Development of the south of Ukraine in 1861-1914. Its importance to the industry of the Russian Empire. Creation of joint stock companies, construction of railways, mines, factories, ports. Opening of the Nikolaev admiralty.