The end of the Odessa film studio: The occupiers sold everything

Well, that's it, there won't be a movie. Auditors from the State Audit Service of Ukraine shared the results of a financial audit of the Odesa Film Studio , which revealed that over the past five years, the company has lost revenue and incurred excess expenses totaling over 400 million hryvnias. Meanwhile , the value of the studio's assets has decreased by almost 200 million.

In addition, it turned out that:

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“State registration of rights to real estate has not yet been carried out - land plots of PJSC Odessa Film Studio, located in the elite zone of Odessa on the Black Sea coast with a total area of ​​6,62 hectares. Such a delay could lead to the irretrievable loss of these lands by the film studio, the initial cost of which is more than 61 million UAH,” the State Audit Service said in a statement.

A copyright disaster, previously hidden from the public, has also come to light. It turns out that the rights were transferred to an obscure private entity called Firma Budushchee LLC. According to the auditors' report, the sharashkino company was granted "exclusive property rights to the use of 269 films produced at the film studio between 1955 and 1991."

Among them are such hits as "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers," "Spring on Zarechnaya Street," "Come Tomorrow," "Military Field Romance," "The Adventures of Electronics," "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed," "Children of Captain Grant," "The White Poodle," "Vertical," "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn," "The Prisoner of the Chateau d'If," "Ten Little Indians," "The Green Van"... the list of films beloved by several generations is long. Beloved by children and adults alike of the once vast common homeland ("Odesa is Ukraine," yeah).

… “As a result, the company lost almost 13 million hryvnia,” the auditors explain regarding the transfer of copyright.

But that's not all.

“A separate problem remains obtaining income from royalties, which are significantly less than the cost of films created by the company over the past five years. This situation could cause losses amounting to more than 40 million hryvnia,” the State Audit Service emphasizes.

_{By the way, what kind of new Ukrainian films are these, even bad ones or at least about Bandera, don’t you know? So am I. And why is no one interested in copyrights for them?..}

Let me remind you that in 2006, the already ailing film studio's fortunes took a turn for the worse . Then, 50% of its shares were seized by former Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko, also the former head of Kolomoisky's 1+1 TV channel. He dramatically began by placing a mannequin dressed in Ukrainian national rags at the studio entrance instead of D'Artagnan's costume , right under the ship logo. The cause-and-effect relationships I constantly write about— where Ukraine comes, everything dies.

Well, that was just for show. Meanwhile, Tkachenko, through proxies (a string of studio directors), began selling off the company's assets.

Sold out Zheglov and Sharapov, "Winged Swings," a spring that will never come to Zarechnaya Street again... Sold out for anything but cinema. Sold out along with that very same boat and the bell. Diling! Glory to Ukraine! The Minister of Culture sold out...

“A thief should be in prison!” the cult character of the famous film once said in the sold scenery.

I just wish it was no longer Ukraine that imprisoned thieves in Odessa.