23 September 2025
(PHOTO: Detector Media)
In September, Odesa Film Production, a limited liability company, began filming a short series called "A Film for a Nepman" in Odesa.
The press service of the State Film Agency of Ukraine reported.
The series is being filmed at the Odesa Film Studio. The main characters, writers Yakov Fischer and Ilya Sinyavsky, are trying to win over the audience by opposing Moscow's Sovkino with its monopoly position in film distribution.
It is the 1920s. The writers find bold ideas and ways to outmaneuver a stronger enemy. The story is centered on adventures, paradoxes, risks, courage, creative energy and humor.
The All-Russian Soviet Cinema Photo and Film Industrial Joint Stock Company (Sovkino) was a Soviet photographic and cinematographic state organization and film company founded by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR on June 13, 1924. From the moment of its creation, Sovkino received the rights to import, produce, and monopoly theatrical distribution of films in the Soviet Union, and was subordinated to four film factories and twenty-two production offices. "Sovkino existed until June 1930.
The largest film studio in Ukraine at the time, the film factory of the All-Ukrainian Photo and Film Administration, was operating in Odesa. The most talented Ukrainian artists were involved in filmmaking, and the studio worked mainly on creating audience films. The owners of the cinemas and the main visitors were the so-called NEPs, entrepreneurs of the time who developed during the period of the new economic policy proclaimed by the Soviet government (NEP).
On May 30, the Odesa Film Studio announced the completion of the film Dovzhenko, which is scheduled to premiere in 2026, the 100th anniversary of the director's work at the Odesa Film Studio. In June, the Odesa Film Studio was damaged by a Russian air strike on the city, completely destroying the sets for the Dovzhenko film.
Кирило Бойко