Valerii Shvets

The fun-loving Drahomanovs and the straight-laced Nalyvaichenkos battle for the same picnic spot — and deal with an additional unwanted guest.

December 31st Express was supposed to be an ordinary, quiet rail run, at least that's what conductor Mykola Ivanovych thought. However, a comically chaotic group of passengers including a runaway bride and angry accountant upset a retiring train conductor's peaceful last journey.

Ukraine, 1919. The friendship of two boys, Anton and Jacob, one Christian, the other Jewish, manages to survive the prejudices and hatred that dominate the minds of adults in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.

A determined student from Chicago is forced to fulfill the last wish of his ailing grandfather. He has to travel to Odessa, Ukraine, and bring back his grandfather's cat.

After being suddenly laid off from his high-paying job at a bank, Max decides to fulfill a long-held dream—to move to the countryside. But his wife, Masha, is a die-hard city girl who can’t live without shopping and beauty treatments. Masha is categorically against moving to Senkivka. After losing the argument, she agrees to take a look at a little cottage in the village. Now Max’s task is to make Masha want to stay. His neighbors, Vasyl and Lyuba, step in to help him.

The history of Bender's hunt for the underground millionaire Koreiko develops in the 1920s. Bright characters, adventurous adventures and a light veil of a bygone era in a new version of the classic work of Soviet literature.