Achievements of Ukrainian movie at international film festivals and forum (the second half of the 1950s - 1960s)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the achievements of the Ukrainian cinema of the thaw era in the international arena. Namely, numerous awards and film awards at the Cannes and Venice Festivals, the Locarno (Switzerland) Festival, Mexico City, the 12th San Francisco International Film Festival, and other important film events are the hallmarks of the quality of film production period, and the equation of Ukrainian artists with Western traditions and techniques. The methodology of the study has become generally accepted in modern historiography the principles of objectivity, historicism, systematic, scientific, comprehensive consideration. Thanks to these principles, the author of the article examines the historical process in its dynamics, the multifaceted nature of interconnected relationships. The scientific novelty of the work is that the achievements of Ukrainian cinematography of the second half of the 1950s - the first half of the 1960s on the world stage were systematically explored for the first time. Conclusions. After a long period of stagnation in the cinema after the war, with the beginning of the weakening of political and economic pressure on cinema and the arts in general, cinema became a wide field for the search for new ideas, new technical possibilities and new achievements. This can be traced to the recognition of cinematography, both domestically and internationally. Considering that Ukrainian Soviet cinema was ideologically isolated and entrenched in ideology, it was not inferior in its technical level and ideological content to the world masterpieces of cinema of that time.