Irma Viitovska turns 50! The best films starring the actress who has twice won the Golden Jig

Ukrainian theater and film actress Irma Vitovska celebrates her birthday on December 30. The skillful celebrity of famous Ukrainian films is 50 years old. Her sincerity and charisma made her a favorite of the audience and an irreplaceable star of Ukrainian cinema.

Throughout her brilliant career, she has played vivid roles and won several film awards. OBOZ.UA has compiled a list of the best films starring Irma Vitovska.

Her significant contribution to Ukrainian cinema can be attested to by her two Golden Dzyga awards and two Kinokolo awards. In 2019, Vitovska also received an honorary Golden Duke at the Odesa International Film Festival for her best actress performance in Antonio Lukic's My Thoughts Are Quiet.

"My Thoughts Are Quiet," directed by Antonio Lukic

The road movie tells the story of Vadym, a sound engineer who gets a chance to start his life from scratch. He has to record the voices of Transcarpathian animals and find a rare bird. However, it's not that simple – his mother will be his company, and she will always be in the way.

"The Gate," directed by Volodymyr Tykhyi

The mystical plot of the film tells the story of the family of Grandma Prisya, who lives in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The protagonist eats hallucinogenic mushrooms, with the help of which she discovers things that others have never seen before, and makes friends with mermaids and other mystical creatures of the Zone. Suddenly, their measured life comes to an end, as Grandma Prisia receives a supernatural signal of a catastrophe that will happen soon.

"Goat Nostra. Mom's Coming," dir. by Giovanni Dota

The story centers on the protagonist Vlada Koza, who decides to sell her house in the Carpathians and go to Sicily to help her daughter, who recently gave birth to a child. She tried to make it a surprise, so she didn't tell anyone about her arrival. However, Vlada Koza was surprised by what she saw. The daughter refuses to let her mother take care of the children because she is overprotective and wants to control everything.

After another quarrel, Koza leaves her child and son-in-law and unexpectedly finds herself working at the villa of an Italian mafia widower, which she did not believe existed at first. She becomes, de facto, a savior for his children and a reformer of the old and inefficient mafia.

"God's Own," directed by Denis Tarasov

The film is based on real stories of patients in psychiatric hospitals in the USSR. The film's protagonists fight against the so-called "punitive psychiatry". Healthy people who were against the totalitarian system were forcibly sent to the institution. In the story, a young man was sent to a psychiatric hospital because he listened to Western rock. The protagonist has to choose whether to obey the system and return home, or to go against the authorities and risk his life.

"Taste of Freedom," dir. by Oleksandr Berezan

The protagonist, a young cook named Varya, loses her job at a roadside cafe because her gourmet cuisine is not appreciated. Full of energy and determination, she sets off for Lviv, seeking to realize her dream of becoming a chef in a prestigious restaurant. Fate brings her across a book by Olga Franko, who published The First Ukrainian General Practical Kitchen in 1929. This discovery inspires Varya to new culinary achievements and helps her find her place in the world of haute cuisine.

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