More than €551,000 from Ukraine’s state budget will be spent on the production of the film “Why I Killed Bandera”

A tender has been announced on the Ukrainian government procurement portal Prozorro for the production of a feature-length film titled “Why I Killed Bandera”. The project is set to receive 23,902,761 hryvnias (over €551,000) from the state budget.

The announcement on the website is titled: “State support in the form of a government subsidy for the production (creation) of the national feature film “Why I Killed Bandera”.”

The listed client for the project is the State Film Agency of Ukraine, with a deadline for completion set for December 31, 2026.

The winner of the tender has already been named: Hanzafilm LLC. According to the company’s profile, its projects include just one completed film—a 2018 musical-comedy action movie titled *Noble Vagabonds*. The rest of its projects are still in development, and no additional information about the company is available on the site. However, Hanzafilm regularly receives government funding for film production.

It is unclear whether the mentioned film will focus on Stepan Bandera, who was assassinated in 1959 by KGB agent and native of Lviv Oblast, Bohdan Stashynsky.

Earlier, media outlets reported that Ukraine’s 2025 state budget had frozen nearly all social standards but allocated 1.5 billion hryvnias (€265.1 million) for a television marathon.

Last year, a scandal arose over the allocation of 33 million hryvnias (€760,800) from the budget for a comedy series about an agricultural baron and the author of the phrase, “”Vova, @bash ikh, bl@t’!””.