The Night Coachman / Nichnyi viznyk

This film is about the tragedy of a regular person who wants to remain impartial to the revolutionary events but is involuntarily drawn into a fatal situation and is forced to do a decisive deed – impressed both the Ukrainian and European audience.

Heorhii Tasin’s The Night Coachman is the first Ukrainian film portraying a real person instead of abstract and schematic revolutionary characters.

Amvrosii Buchma, one of the best Ukrainian actors of the first half of the 20th century, played a night coachman from Odesa, who lost his daughter because of his own rashness. This work was probably the first in Ukrainian film to successfully represent a dramatic character. The film instigated the turn of Ukrainian cinema towards psychological development of characters.