The purpose of the article is to study historiographical sources on the problems of the poetic cinema of the "Soviet" period when the USSR (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) was a part of the united states-political formation – the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The methodology of the study allowed us to use the following methods: historical, adductive (cognitive), systemic, comparative-analytical. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is a comprehensive substantiated scientific position on historiographical sources on the problems of the poetic cinema of the "Soviet" period, which was characterized by the presence of rigid authoritarian censorship. Conclusions . The historiography of the period has been researched, the problem is represented by a large number of film studies, and it has been proved that the poetry of the majority of film works was achieved due to various stylistic elements. The practical significance of the obtained results is conditioned by the possibility of using actual historical and methodological material to comprehensively comprehend the problems of domestic film studies of the mid-twentieth century.