Odessa Film Studio

Odessa Film Studio

Type	Closed Joint-stock company
Industry	Film
Founded	2005 (originally in 1919)
Headquarters	Frantsuzky bulvar 33, Odessa, Ukraine
Key people	Viktor Nozdryukhin-Zabolotny (acting Chairman)
Products	Motion pictures, TV films
Owner(s)	Government of Ukraine (50%+1) and Nova Film Studios LLC
Parent	Odessa Film Studios of featured films Nova Film Studios
Website	http://odessafilm.com.ua

Odessa Film Studio (Ukrainian: Одеська кіностудія художніх фільмів) is a Ukrainian film studio in Odessa. 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'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 covering some 7 hectares (17 acres) and consisting of three pavilions of 600 square metres (6,500 sq ft), 432 square metres (4,650 sq ft), and 240 square metres (2,600 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, 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 (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 and Oleksandr Muratov
• Vadym Kostromenko, currently the director of the museum
• Vadym Avloshenko

1966-1996

• Stanislav Govorukhin
• Natalya Zbandut (Medyuk)
• Mykhailo Kats

Selected actors

1919-1925

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

1926-1936

• Natalya Uzhviy
• Matviy Lyarov

1966-1996

• Vladimir Vysotsky

Others

• Samvel Gasparov

External links

• Odessa Film Studio (USSR) at the Internet Movie Database
• Odessa Film Studio (Ukraine) at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website of Odessa film studio
• Non-official website Odessa film studio