Arnold Kordium

Arnold Kordium (1890–1969) was a film director and master of adventure cinema. He participated in the filming of one of the first Ukrainian films, Zaporizhzhia Sich (1911) by Danylo Sakhnenko. He fought in World War I. Kordium made his directorial debut with the film Behind the Forest (1926), where Oleksandr Dovzhenko also worked for the first time (as one of the filmmakers). Among Kordium’s best films are Dzhalma (1928), the story of a Chechen girl who is bullied by the conservative Ukrainian villagers, Wind Across the Rapids (1929) about the construction of DniproHES on the Dnipro river bank, and Flames of the Mountains (1931), the story of the Western Ukrainian loggers struggle against the Polish abuse.