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The Wild Fields
''The Wild Fields'' ( uk, Дике поле) is a film based on Serhiy Zhadan’s novel “Voroshylovhrad”. Its genre is eastern. The film was developed by LIMELITE Production in collaboration with TV Channel “Ukraine”, Media Group Ukraine, Ukrainian State Film Agency (Derzhkino) and a Swiss production studio “Film Brut”. The film was released in wide distribution in Ukraine on 9 November 2018. The screen version of Serhiy Zhadan's novel has already won The Connecting Cottubs Best Pitch Award 2016, The Connecting Cottubs Producers Network Award 2016, The Connecting Cottubs Pitch Award 2017 and The Connecting Cottubs Work-In-Progress Award 2017. Plot The protagonist, Herman has to come back to his native Donbas after years spent away. He has to look into the case of his brother's sudden disappearance. Herman meets real and unreal characters, his childhood friends and the local mafia. And suddenly, to his own surprise, he decides to stay in his native town with peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Viktorovych Zhadan ( uk, Сергі́й Ві́кторович Жада́н; born 23 August 1974 in Starobilsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, musician, translator, and social activist. Life and career Zhadan was born in Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine. He graduated from H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University in 1996 with a thesis on the work of Mykhaylo Semenko and the Ukrainian Futurist writers of the 1920s. He then spent three years as a graduate student of philology, and taught Ukrainian and world literature from 2000 to 2004. Since then he has worked as a freelance writer. Starting his career in 1990, his verses revolutionized Ukrainian poetry: they were less sentimental, reviving the style of 1920s Ukrainian avant-garde writers like Semenko or Johanssen. And they drew upon his homeland: the industrial landscapes of East Ukraine. ''Voroshilovgrad'' (the Soviet name for Luhansk) tells a story of a young man c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voroshylovhrad
Luhansk (, ; uk, Луганськ, ), also known as Lugansk (, ; russian: Луганск, ), is a city in what is internationally recognised as Ukraine, although it is administered by Russia as capital of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). As of 2021, the population was estimated to be 399,559, making Luhansk the most populous city in the region and the 12th largest in Ukraine. In 2001, nearly half of the population was ethnically Ukrainian, and 47% was ethnically Russian. Luhansk has been the capital and administrative center of Luhansk Oblast, although the Ukrainian administration was relocated to Sievierodonetsk when the War in Donbas broke out following the establishment of LPR. Etymology Luhansk was named after the Luhan River, which flows through the city. According to folk etymology, the name is also derived to the word "Luh" (Ukrainian: Луг), which means "meadow", referring to the floodplains around the river. History The city traces its history to 1795 when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voroshilovgrad (novel)
''Voroshilovgrad'' (Voroshylovhrad, uk, Ворошиловград) is a novel by Ukrainian author and social activist Serhiy Zhadan, published in 2010. In 2016, it was translated from Ukrainian into English by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Wheeler. ''The Wild Fields'', a film based on the novel, was released in 2018. ''Voroshilovgrad'' won the BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year award in 2010, its Book of the Decade award in 2014, and the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in Switzerland in 2014. The novel has been translated at least into nine languages. Background Voroshylovhrad is a city located in Donbas in eastern Ukraine known as Luhansk after the Soviet Union dissolved. English translators from Russia used historical Russian transliteration of the city's name (with ''i'' for ''и'' and ''g'' for ''г'') when initially translated. In an effort to break the colonial tradition of writing names using Russian phonetics, guidelines from the Ukrainian government (with ''y'' f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksiy Gorbunov
Oleksiy Serhiyovych Horbunov ( uk, Олексій Сергійович Горбунов; born on 29 October 1961) is a Ukrainian film, television and stage actor. He has been named an Honored Artist of Ukraine (1991) and a People's Artist of Ukraine (2016).Указ Президент України від 22 січня 2016 року № 18/2016 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Дня Соборності України» Life and career Oleksiy Gorbunov was born on 29 October 1961 in |
Serhiy Mykhalchuk
Serhiy Mykhalchuk ( uk, Сергій Михальчук; born 13 July 1972, in Lutsk) is a Ukrainian cinematographer. He graduated in 1994 from the Kyiv Theater Institute of Karpenko-Karyj. In addition to film work, Mykhalchuk has also produced documentaries and television feature films, music videos, and advertising features. Films * 2000 – ''Zakon'' (The Law) (directed by Aleksandr Veledinsky, Russia) * 2002 – ''Lubovnik'' (The Lover) (directed by Valeri Todorovsky, Russia) * 2003 – ''Mamay'' (directed by Oles Sanin, Ukraine) Oscar nominee of Ukraine * 2004 – ''Moy svodnyy brat Frankenshteyn'' (directed by Valeri Todorovsky, Russia) * 2005 – ''Contact'' (directed by Andrej Novoselov, Russia) * 2006 – ''I.D.'' (directed by Ghassan Shmeit, Syria) * 2008 – ''Las Meninas'' (directed by Ihor Podolchak, Ukraine) * 2008 – ''Illusion of Fear'' (directed by Oleksandr Kirienko, Ukraine) * 2014 – ''The Guide'' * 2015 – ''Under Electric Clouds'' * 2019 – '' V.Silvest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine (TV Channel)
Ukraina ( uk, Україна; officially TRC Ukraina, uk, ТРК «Україна») was a national Ukrainian-language TV channel, owned by Media Group Ukraine. It began broadcasting as a regional, Donetsk TV channel on March 13, 1993, with getting a national status in 2004. It ceased broadcasting in July 2022. The channel consisted of TV shows, films and TV series, both domestic and foreign. History Channel Ukraine was established in Donetsk in March 1993 as the state utility company Doka-TV. The operator was in stake under Donetsk City Council. The channel started broadcasting in Donetsk on Channel 7, where, as a result it, shared time with other TV companies – "ASKET 7x7" and Sket. The channel was known for its Ukrainophobic policies and promoting the Russian move of integration and also recognise Dombass policies in Ukrainian until 2009. By the end of the 1990s, ASKET TV was bought out by tycoon Rinat Akhmetov's structures, and in connection with the re-licensing o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Group Ukraine
Media Group Ukraine ( uk, Медіа Група «Україна») is a media holding company that manages System Capital Management Group's television and new media projects. The holding company is a professional investor in Ukrainian media business. Media Group Ukraine is one of the largest media holding companies in Ukraine. In July 2022, it was announced that Rinat Akhmetov (sole owner of the media group) had left the media business. It was announced that Media Group Ukraine plans to give up all broadcast and satellite television licenses and print media licenses in Ukraine in favor of the state, as well as the termination of online media. This was explained by the entry into force of the law on oligarchs. However, Forbes Ukraine made a report in which stated, that the Media Group Ukraine costed 100-150 mln USD per year, thus it was not profitable business and Akhmetov decided to cut costs during the ongoing war with Russia. Subcidiaries The company was established in 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Brut
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ostern
The Ostern (Eastern; , ''Istern''; or остерн) or Red Western was a film genre created in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc as a variation of the Western films that originated in the United States. The word "Ostern" is a portmanteau derived from the German word ''Ost'', meaning "East", and the English word "western". The term now includes two related genres: * Proper Red Westerns, set in America's "Wild West" but involving radically different themes and interpretations than US westerns. Examples include ''Lemonade Joe'' (Czechoslovakia, 1964), or ''The Sons of Great Bear'' (East Germany, 1966) or '' The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians'' (Romania, 1981), or ''A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines'' (USSR, 1987). These were mostly produced in Eastern European countries like East Germany and Czechoslovakia, rather than USSR. * Easterns (Osterns), set usually on the steppes or Asian parts of the USSR, especially during the Russian Revolution or the following Civil War, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LIMELITE Production
The ''Limelite'' was a broadsheet weekly newspaper that served Loring Air Force Base from 1953 to 1994. External linksMentions online Loring Air Force Base Defunct newspapers published in Maine United States Air Force publications Newspapers established in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian State Film Agency
The Ukrainian State Film Agency ( uk, Державне агентство України з питань кіно; romanization: ''Derzhavne ahentstvo Ukrayiny z pytanʹ kino''), known in short as Derzhkino ('' uk, Держкіно''), is the central executive body of cinematography in Ukraine. It was created in 2011. Pylyp Illenko was the agency's chair from August 2014 until his resignation in August 2019. Creation of Derzhkino On March 28, 2011, as a result, the State Service of Cinematography was eliminated, instead, the State Agency of Ukraine on Cinema as a central executive body, which implements state policy in the field of cinematography, was established. From August 2014 to August 2019, the Chairman of the Agency was Pylyp Illenko. Since the creation of the State Committee, the financing of film production by the state has been significantly increased. Thus, in 2010, the financing of Ukrainian cinema amounted to UAH 24 million, and in 2011 — already 111 million UAH. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donbas
The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War: the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic. The word ''Donbas'' is a portmanteau formed from "Donets Basin", an abbreviation of "Donets Coal Basin" ( uk, Донецький вугільний басейн, Donetskyi vuhilnyi basein; russian: Донецкий угольный бассейн, Donetskii ugolnyi bassein). The name of the coal basin is a reference to the Donets Ridge; the latter is associated with the Donets river. There are numerous definitions of the region's extent. It is now most commonly defined as the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. The historical coal mining region excluded parts of these oblasts, and included areas in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and Southern Russia. A Euroregion of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
