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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The history of Ukrainian culture of the 1920s is mostly the history of the lost. 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 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

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A Hat 1927 A Landlord 1924 A Tale of Little Straw Bull 1927 Arsenaltsi 1925 Ataman Khmil 1924 Avalanche 1928 Bashtanskaya Republic 1930 Beetroot Helped 1926 Behind the Nunnery Wall 1928 Behind the Wall 1928 Blaze the Trail 1929 Blue Package 1926 Boryslav is Laughing 1927 Boy from the Camp 1930 Caprice of Catherine ІІ 1928 Cement 1928 Cleaning 1930 Cross-Country 1927 Dappled Calf 1924 Dark Kingdom 1929 Deprived of the Day 1927 Downpour 1929 Dymivka 1926 Earth Is Calling 1928 Explosion 1927 Fire Revenge 1930 For Black Gold 1924 Forest Beast 1925 Fresh Air 1927 From Darkness to Light 1924 General from the Other World 1925 Gold Coins 1930 Gonorrhea 1927 Gossips 1928 Guest from Mecca 1930 Hamburg 1926 Hands off China 1924 Hero of the Match 1926 I Present It to You 1930 Icebreaker Litke 1930 In Snow Banks 1929 Jimmy Higgings 1928 Judge Reitan 1929 Laws of the Storm 1928 Loop the Loop 1930 Lord of the Black Rocks 1924 Magnetic Anomaly 1923 Man from the Forest 1928 Mariika 1926 McDonald 1924 Mill in the Undergrowth 1928 Mitia 1927 Mitroshka, the Soldier of the Revolution 1928 Mospoligraph Pencil 1928 Museum Guard 1930 Mykola Dzheria 1926 No Obstacles 1929 Noblewoman 1924 Nursery 1928 Oktiabryna 1924 On the Eve 1928 One Night 1927 Ostap Bandura 1924 Parents’ Rights 1930 Salt 1925 Searching for Fate 1927 Semiramis’ Pearls 1929 Sold Appetite 1928 Soviet Air 1925 Spartacus 1926 Storm 1928 Streams 1923 Street Kids 1928 Suspicious Luggage 1926 Swedish Match 1922 Tamilla 1928 The Big Grief of a Little Woman 1929 The Crowning Performance by Clown Georges 1929 The Exhibit from Panopticon 1929 The Eyes That Saw 1928 The Fair at Sorochyntsi 1927 The Girl From the Deck 1928 The Inventor 1925 The Invincibles 1929 The Life of Taras 1927 The Little Shoes 1928 The Right to a Woman 1930 The Stake of Mr. Enniok 1923 They Don’t Give Any Chance to Go 1930 Three Rooms with a Kitchen 1928 Through Tears 1928 Tovstopuzenko’s Dream 1924 Two 1928 Two Women 1930 Vasia the Reformer 1926 Vendetta 1925 Wandering Stars 1927 А Tale of the Squirrel-hostess and the Mouse-villain 1928