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Odessa Film Studio

One of the two lions guarding a closed entrance to the studio

Russian: Одесская киностудия
Frantsuzsky Blvd. 33 (Французский Бульвар 33)
Tel/Fax: 233-9525
Web site: http://odesafilm.com/

Founded in 1916, the Odessa Film Studio is the oldest film studio in Ukraine and one of the oldest motion picture studios of the Russian Empire and USSR.^[1]

The Odessa Film Studio is located within white gates, guarded with lion sculptures.

During World War Two the studio was destroyed. It was rebuilt in 1954. A new building was added in 1973. During its height in the Soviet Union, the studio produced 20-25 television films and documentaries a year.

In the entrance is a large wall with black and white photos celebrating those veterans, both men and women, who fought in World War Two. The main inscription reads 57 years since the colossal victory.

Studio facade

Dovzhenko

Bas relief with no inscription

The studio facade has four bas-reliefs:

Prominent Ukrainian Soviet film director and writer Oleksandr Dovzhenko (Олександр Петрович Довженко) worked at the Odessa film studio from 1926 to 1929.

Wikipedia on Dovzhenko

1974 Shukshin (Famous Russian writer and actor Vasily Shukshin (Васи́лий Макарович Шукшин)) Wikipedia on Shukshin

Talented cinematographist, philosopher, and director of Odessa film studio Gennady Zbandut worked here in 1964-1990.

Below the lion is the following plaque:

Here, in 1922, members of the Young Communist League (Komsomol) and young workers of the cinema factory formed "Red swallow" - one of the first pioneer groups in Odessa.

Plaque at film studio, below one of the two lions.

Golden Duke film festival

Golden Duke festival 1988, decorating the Duke de Richelieu Monument, by Evgene Olenin (Евгений Оленин)^[2]

The Golden Duke film festival (Золотой Дюк фильмов фестиваля) began in 1987. It was disrupted because of the turmoil of perestroika, when no Ukrainian videos were made. There were only three festivals, in 1988, 1990, and 1994. By the mid-1990s filming in Odessa had virtually disappeared.^[3]

Memorial plaques

Frantsuzsky Blvd. 14A (Французский Бульвар 14A)
(Corner of Gagarina Ave.(Гагарина проспект))

This street is named after the first cosmonaut of the world, the Hero of the Soviet Union, Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin.

Frantsuzsky Blvd. 14A

Dovzjenko 7 (Довженко 7)

In this building a professor, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine named after T.G.Shevchenko in the field of literature, Vasil Vasilyovich Faschenko lived from 1964 to 1999. /1929-1999/

In this building prominent Ukrainian scientist and journalist Andriy Volodimirovich Nedzvidsky lived from 1964 to 1984.

Photos

More Golden Duke 1988 photos

Banners and decorations outside of ticket office

Decorated Potemkin Stairs

The film studio from the street

Building inside the film studio	Lions flanking guarded entrance	Lions as seen from across the street	Building facade
Zbandut plaque	Memorial plaque on facade	Memorial plaque on facade	Dovzhenko plaque
New plaque on building facade	Old film studio facade before remodel	Old film studio facade before remodel

Inside the film studio

Monument inside the film studio	Monument inside the film studio	Monument inside the film studio	Monument inside the film studio
Monument inside the film studio	Museum courtyard, inside the film studio	Museum courtyard, inside the film studio	Film museum, closed to the public
Film museum, closed to the public	Film museum, closed to the public	Museum curator at museum entrance	Museum courtyard
Museum courtyard	Museum courtyard	Museum courtyard

Portraits

Building with portraits on facade, on the film studio grounds	Cavour	Cavour with crest	Manzon
Manzon with crest	D'Azeglio	D'Azeglio with crest	Bellini Vincenzo, was a Sicilian opera composer. Wikipedia on Bellini
Bellini Vincenzo with crest	Unnamed portrait	Unnamed portrait and crest	Victor Hugo, French poet Wikipedia on Hugo
Victor Hugo with crest	Unnamed woman	Unnamed woman and crest	Third unnamed portrait
Ornate crest	Fourth unnamed portrait

Non-film studio photos

Bender graffiti at the entrance of Frantsuzsky Blvd. 29, taken summer of 2007.	Frantsuzsky Blvd. 29 plaque	Frantsuzsky Blvd. 29	Frantsuzsky Blvd. 29
Frantsuzsky Blvd. 29 plaque	Frantsuzsky Blvd. 29	Frantsuzsky Blvd. 14, across the street from the film studio	Frantsuzsky Blvd. 14

Notes

1. ^ ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Одесская_киностудия
2. ^ project-odessa.com/projects/5.htm
   (In Russian--Use this Google translate, or alternatively, babelfish)
3. ^ russiancinema.ru/template.php?dept_id=3&e_dept_id=4&e_prize_id=225, news2000.org.ua/c/38402
   (In Russian--Use this Google translate, or alternatively, babelfish)

External links

• Unofficial webpage of the studio
  (In Russian--Use this Google translate, or alternatively, babelfish)

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