Alexander Dovzhenko National Film Studio
Historic film studio in parkland, founded in the 1920s and fronted by an orchard its namesake planted.
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This guide to the Alexander Dovzhenko National Film Studio in Kyiv starts on an autumn night in nineteen twenty-seven, when a Soviet film trust was in such a hurry for its dream factory that it could not wait for the builders to finish. From there it follows the money: what a studio of this size is really worth, and who has eyed it since independence. Best heard from the avenue side, near the apple trees.
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