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Babylon XX
''Babylon XX'' (russian: Вавилон XX, translit=Vavilon XX; uk, Вавілон XX, translit=Vavilon XX) is a 1979 Ukrainian Soviet film directed by Ivan Mykolaichuk in his directorial debut and starring an ensemble cast including Mykolaichuk, Lyubov Polishchuk, and Les Serdyuk as peasants struggling to adapt to life within a commune led by Soviet sailor Klym Synytsia (played by ). It is a loose film adaptation of the 1971 novel ''A Flock of Swans'' by , and depicts collectivization in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the transition from communism to capitalism in Ukraine. ''Babylon XX'' had a troubled production history, with both a part-time film crew and a backdrop of Soviet repressions on Ukrainian freedom of expression; Ukrainian poetic cinema, the movement to which ''Babylon XX'' belonged, was formally banned, and ''A Flock of Swans'' itself had been threatened to be banned. The film's production took two years before premiering at the 1979 Kyiv Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk ( uk, Іван Васильович Миколайчук) (15 June 1941, Chortoryia, Ukrainian SSR – 3 August 1987) was a Ukrainian actor, producer, and screen writer. He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in '' Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'' (Тіні забутих предків) (1964), based on Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky's book of the same name. He received the Komsomol prize of Ukraine in 1967, and the title of ''Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR'' in 1968. He posthumously received the Taras Shevchenko prize. Biography Mykolaichuk was born in a village of Chortoryia ( Kitsman Raion) in Western Ukraine during World War II in a family of peasants. Ivan graduated from a high school of the neighboring village of Brusnytsia ( Kitsman Raion). In 1957, he finished the Chernivtsi Music College and in 1961 he graduated from the theater-studio of the Chernivtsi Music-Drama Theater of Kobylyanska. On August 29, 1962 Ivan married an actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas II Of Russia
Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov; spelled in pre-revolutionary script. ( 186817 July 1918), known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer,. was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. During his reign, Nicholas gave support to the economic and political reforms promoted by his prime ministers, Sergei Witte and Pyotr Stolypin. He advocated modernization based on foreign loans and close ties with France, but resisted giving the new parliament (the Duma) major roles. Ultimately, progress was undermined by Nicholas's commitment to autocratic rule, strong aristocratic opposition and defeats sustained by the Russian military in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. By March 1917, public support for Nicholas had collapsed and he was forced to abdicate the throne, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty's 304-year rule of Russia (16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspilne Kultura
Suspilne Kultura ( uk, Суспільне Культура) is a Ukrainian public TV channel showcasing culture in Ukraine, operated by the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine The Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine ( uk, Національна суспільна телерадіокомпанія України, Natsionalna Suspilna Teleradiokompaniia Ukrainy; abbr. NSTU), shortened to Suspilne ( uk, Суспіль .... History The State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “Culture” emerged in Ukraine in 2002 as part of the State Committee of Television and Radio of Ukraine. It was first broadcast on the First National and Second National channels. In November, 2004 STRBC “Culture” was granted a license from the National television and broadcasting Council of Ukraine permitting it round-the-clock satellite broadcasting for a period of ten years. From September, 2005 STRBC “Culture” broadcasts over the cable network of Kyiv and the regions of Ukraine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Generalić
Ivan Generalić (December 21, 1914 – November 27, 1992) was a Croatian painter in the naïve tradition. Biography Generalić was born in Hlebine near Koprivnica. In elementary school, painting lessons were his greatest joy and as a child he used to earn money. He mostly drew with pencil on paper bags and some of these sketches were seen by Krsto Hegedušić, at the time (1930) just a student of the art academy, later a professor. Hegedušić was impressed with Generalić's work and organized Generalić's first public art exhibition, held in 1931 in the Zagreb Art pavilion. Positive critiques and contacts at the time led to a new era of not only Croatian, but also world art as well. After World War II, in 1945 he became a member of ULUH (society of Croatian artists). In 1953 he exhibited in Paris, where he lived and painted for a few months. In 1959 he painted ''The Deer Wedding'' - his most valuable work, according to followers of the Croatian naïve art world. His home an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naïve Art
Naïve art is usually defined as visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). When this aesthetic is emulated by a trained artist, the result is sometimes called '' primitivism'', ''pseudo-naïve art'', or ''faux naïve art''. Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily derive from a distinct popular cultural context or tradition; indeed, at least in the advanced economies and since the Printing Revolution, awareness of the local fine art tradition has been inescapable, as it diffused through popular prints and other media. Naïve artists are aware of "fine art" conventions such as graphical perspective and compositional conventions, but are unable to fully use them, or choose not to. By contrast, outsider art (''art brut'') denotes works from a similar context but which have only minimal contact with the mainstream art world. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Low Culture
In sociology, the term Low culture identifies the forms of popular culture that have mass appeal, which is in contrast to High culture, which has a limited appeal to a smaller proportion of the populace. Culture theory proposes that both high culture and low culture are subcultures within a society, because each type of popular culture is mass produced by the culture industry, for every social class. Standards and definitions In ''Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste'' (1958), Herbert J. Gans defines and identifies ''Low culture'': Culture as social class Each social class possess their own types of high-culture and of low-culture, the definition and content of which are determined by the socio-economic and educational particulars, the '' habitus'' of the people who compose a given social class. Therefore, what is ''high culture'' and what is ''low culture'' has specific meanings and usages collectively determined by the members of a soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Culture
High culture is a subculture that emphasizes and encompasses the cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteem as exemplary art, and the intellectual works of philosophy, history, art, and literature that a society consider representative of their culture. Definition In popular usage, the term ''high culture'' identifies the culture of an upper class (an aristocracy) or of a status class (the intelligentsia); and also identifies a society’s common repository of broad-range knowledge and tradition (e.g. folk culture) that transcends the social-class system of the society. Sociologically, the term ''high culture'' is contrasted with the term ''low culture'', the forms of popular culture characteristic of the less-educated social classes, such as the barbarians, the Philistines, and ''hoi polloi'' (the masses). Concept In European history, high culture was understood as a cultural concept common to the humanities, until the mid-19th century, when Matthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nativity Scene
In the Christianity, Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche ( or ), or in Italian language, Italian ''presepio'' or ''presepe'', or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmastide, Christmas season, of art objects representing the nativity of Jesus, birth of Jesus.Berliner, R. ''The Origins of the Creche''. Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 30 (1946), p. 251. While the term "nativity scene" may be used of any representation of the very common subject of the Nativity of Jesus in art, it has a more specialized sense referring to seasonal displays, either using model figures in a setting or reenactments called "living nativity scenes" (''tableau vivant'') in which real humans and animals participate. Nativity scenes exhibit figures representing the infant Jesus, his mother, Mary, Mother of Jesus, Mary, and her husband, Saint Joseph, Joseph. Other characters from the nativity story, such as shepherds, sheep, and angels ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Ivchenko
Boris Ivchenko ( uk, Бори́с Ві́кторович І́вченко; russian: Борис Викторович Ивченко) was a Ukrainian actor and film director. He was the son of another Ukrainian and Soviet film director, Viktor Ivchenko. Biography Ivchenko was born on 29 January 1941 in Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR. He graduated from the Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1966. All his life Ivchenko worked at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. He died on 28 June 1990 and is buried at the Baikove Cemetery. Filmography Actor * 1958 '' E.A. — Extraordinary Accident'' * 1960 ''Fortress on wheels'' * 1960 ''Human blood - not water'' * 1961 ''Dmytro Horytsvit'' * 1968 '' Annychka'' * 1979 ''Babylon XX'' Film director * 1966 ''Intermission'' * 1968 '' Annychka'' * 1971 '' Olesya'' * 1972 '' The Lost Letter'' * 1973 ''When a Person Smiled'' * 1974 ''Maryna'' * 1976 ''Memory of Land'' * 1979 ''Under the Constellation Gemini ''Under the Constellation Gemini'' (russian: По ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayisa Nedashkivska
Rayisa Nedashkivska (Ukrainian: Раїса Недашківська Rayisa Nedashkivska, Russian: Раиса Недашковская; 17 February 1943, Malyn, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cinema actress. In 1993 she was awarded People's Artist of Ukraine People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). Estab .... Filmography References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nedashkivska, Rayisa 1943 births Living people Ukrainian stage actresses Ukrainian film actresses Soviet stage actresses Soviet film actresses People from Malyn 20th-century Ukrainian actresses 21st-century Ukrainian actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Stepankov
Kostiantyn Petrovich Stepankov ( uk, Костянтин Петрович Степанков, by name of Kostiantyn Petrovich Voloshchuk; 3 June 1928 – 22 July 2004) was a Ukrainian soviet actor. He appeared in more than fifty films between 1958 and 1999. He was a member of the jury at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography Kostiantyn Stepankov was born in a village Pechesky, Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Western Ukraine in family of the priest. In 1950-53 he studied in the Karpenko-Karyi Memorial Kyiv Institute of Theatrical Arts Selected filmography * '' Pavel Korchagin'' (1956) * '' The Dream'' (1964) * ''The Stone Cross'' (1968) * ''Annychka'' (1968) * ''Commisars'' (1970) * '' The White Bird Marked with Black'' (1970) * ''Zakhar Berkut'' (1971) * ''Maryna'' (1974) * ''How the Steel Was Tempered'' (1975) * ''Hatred'' (1975) * '' Babylon XX'' (1979) * ''The Gadfly'' (1980) * ''Dudaryky'' (1980) * ''Yaroslav Mudry'' (1982) * '' The Legend of Princess Olga'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boryslav Brondukov
Boryslav Mykolayovych Brondukov ( uk, Борислáв Миколáйович Брондукóв; russian: Борислав Николаевич Брондуков; 1 March 1938 – 10 March 2004) was a Ukrainian film character actor, People's Artist of Ukraine.БРОНДУКОВ Борислав Николаевич 221b.ru. He was born in the village of Dubova in Poliske Raion of , |
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