VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration) existed for less than nine years (1922-1930), but it managed to release over 140 fiction films, several hundreds of non-fiction films and newsreels, dozens of animations, gain fame of “Ukrainian Hollywood,” and take under its control all aspects of the cinematic process – filmmaking, distribution, film press, propaganda, and education. From over 140 full-length fiction films made by VUFKU, about 60 films are considered lost. A lot of the surviving films have come down to us incomplete (without one or more parts).

The website VUFKU. Lost&Found is the first online collection of Dovzhenko-Centre’s media library and is perhaps the only online resource providing comprehensive information on VUFKU.

The mission of the VUFKU. Lost&Found project is to search and return to Ukraine the lost films of the 1920s. Traces of some of the lost films of that time can be found in international archives. Meanwhile, we are collecting archive materials about the lost films, restoring their contents, learning the context of their release.

These searches and analysis, restoration of films and their return to the cultural circulation require financial support. Donating to our fundraising campaign, which will start in October 2019, you will be able to contribute to the restoration of Ukrainian cinema.

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VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration) existed for less than nine years (1922-1930), but it managed to release over 140 fiction films, several hundreds of non-fiction films and newsreels, dozens of animations, gain fame of «Ukrainian Hollywood», and take under its control all aspects of the cinematic process – filmmaking, distribution, film press, propaganda, and education.

In this section, we collect a database of the saved VUFKU films, ranging from the most important Earth and Man With a Movie Camera to recently found Taras Triasylo and Man and a Monkey.

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Adventures of Half a Rubel 1929 Alim 1926 Arrest Warrant 1926 Arsenal 1929 Benia Kryk 1927 Blown Up Days 1930 Bread 1929 Case No 128 1927 Contact 1930 Documents of the Era 1928 Dzhalma 1928 Earth 1930 Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas 1930 Famine and the Fight Against It 1922 Final Rehearsal 1930 Five Brides 1929 For Woman About a Woman 1930 In Spring 1929 In the Claws of the Soviets 1926 Kira Kiralina 1927 Locksmith and Chancellor 1924 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Mud 1926 Night Coachman 1927 Oktiabriukhov and Dekabriukhov 1928 One of the Guys 1930 P. B. P. 1926 Perekop 1930 Robinson for Himself 1929 Saboteur 1929 Secret of the Rapids 1930 Self-Seeker 1929 Sketches of the Soviet City 1928 Spectre is Haunting Europe 1923 Suburban Districts 1930 Tamilla 1928 Taras Shevchenko 1926 Taras Triasylo 1926 The Diplomatic Pouch 1927 The Eleventh Year 1928 The Provocator 1928 The Shadows of the Belvedere 1926 The Struggle of the Giants 1926 Thistle 1928 Three 1928 Transbalt 1930 Trypillian Tragedy 1926 Two Days 1927 Ukrasia 1925 Vanka and the Avenger 1928 Vasylyna 1928 Wind From the Rapids 1929 You’re not a Thief Till You’re Caught 1924 Zvenyhora 1927