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Ukrainian Poetic Cinema
Ukrainian poetic cinema was a cinematic and cultural movement which emerged in the mid-20th century in reaction to Soviet nationality policy. It and other art movements emerged in the Soviet cinema industry in the mid-1960s with the release of the film ''Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors''. In contrast to Soviet realistic cinema, Ukrainian poetic cinema focused on visual expressiveness, surreal and ethnographic motifs. It was influenced by Ukrainian folklore and early works of Alexander Dovzhenko. The development of Ukrainian poetic cinema provoked another wave of repression of the Soviet ideological machine against Ukrainian cinema, national consciousness and non-traditional artistic search. Many films of this movement were banned in the USSR due to ideological censorship, and released only in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The term "Ukrainian poetic cinema" is attributed to Polish movie critic Janusz Gazda, who proposed it in 1970. Films Ukrainian poetic cinema includes ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s
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Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors
''Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'', alternatively translated into English as ''Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors'' or ''Shadows of Our Ancestors'' ( uk, Тіні забутих предків, Tini zabutykh predkiv), also known in English under the alternative title ''Wild Horses of Fire'' and under the mistaken title of ''In the Shadow of the Past'',Reviewing the film in 1966 for Variety Gene Moskowitz mistakenly called the film ''In the Shadow of the Past'', seShadows of Forgotten Ancestors: Ukrainian Revival. The Reception of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors// James Steffen (2013)The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 306 p.: pp. 73–78. ISBN 978-0-299-29653-7 is a 1965 Ukrainian film by the filmmaker Sergei Parajanov based on the novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that tells a "Romeo and Juliet tale" of young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers trapped on opposite sides of a Carpathian family blood feud. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Folklore
Ukrainian folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in Ukraine and among ethnic Ukrainians. The earliest examples of folklore found in Ukraine is the layer of pan-Slavic folklore that dates back to the ancient Slavic mythology of the Eastern Slavs. Gradually, Ukrainians developed a layer of their own distinct folk culture. Folklore has been an important tool in defining and retaining a cultural distinctiveness in Ukraine in the face of strong assimilatory pressures from neighboring lands. Distinctiveness Ukrainian folk customs have numerous layers defined by the period in which that aspect developed and the area in which it was exploited. The lowest and oldest level is the pan-Slavic layer of folk culture which has many elements that are common to the Slavic people in general. Above that are elements common to the Eastern Slavs, and above that are elements found only in Ukraine itself. The layer above this contains cultural and folkloric elements that define the various m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Dovzhenko
Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko or Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko ( uk, Олександр Петрович Довженко, ''Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko''; russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Довже́нко, ''Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko''; November 25, 1956), was a Ukrainian Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory. Biography Oleksandr Dovzhenko was born in the hamlet of Viunyshche located in the Sosnitsky Uyezd of the Chernihiv Governorate of the Russian Empire (now part of Sosnytsia in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine), to Petro Semenovych Dovzhenko and Odarka Yermolayivna Dovzhenko. His paternal ancestors were Ukrainian Cossacks (Chumaks) who settled in Sosnytsia in the eighteenth century, coming from the neighbouring province of Poltava. Oleksander was the sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov, ka, სერგო ფარაჯანოვი, uk, Сергій Параджанов (January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990) was an Armenian filmmaker. Parajanov is regarded by film critics, film historians and filmmakers to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in cinema history. He invented his own cinematic style, which was out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism; the only sanctioned art style in the USSR. This, combined with his lifestyle and behaviour, led Soviet authorities to repeatedly persecute and imprison him, and suppress his films. Despite this, Parajanov was named one of the 20 Film Directors of the Future by the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and his films were ranked among the greatest films of all time by the British Film Institute's magazine Sight & Sound. Although he started professional film-making in 1954, Parajanov later disowned all the films he made before 1965 as "garbage". After directi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stone Cross (1968 Film)
''The Stone Cross'' ( uk, Камінний хрест) is a 1968 Ukrainian film. Directed by Leonid Osyka, it is based on Vasyl Stefanyk's short stories ''The Thief'' and '' The Stone Cross''. It has been ranked 5th in the list of the 100 best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema. In 2009 began the digital restoration of this film. Plot In the 1890s, Ivan, a Galician peasant in a desperate attempt to get his family out of poverty decides to leave his ancestral home and emigrate to Canada. On the eve of his departure a thief Theft is the act of taking another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word ''theft'' is also used as a synonym or informal shorthand term for some ... gets into his house. The village judges sentence the thief to death. The departure for Canada being tantamount to his own death, Ivan holds a farewell party that feels like a funeral for him and his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Osyka
Leonid Mikhailovich Osyka ( uk, Леонід Михайлович Осика) (March 8, 1940 in Kyiv – September 16, 2001 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian movie director, producer, and screen writer. Osyka was awarded the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize of Ukraine, which was established to honor outstanding contributions to the development of Ukrainian cinema. Selected films *1965 - The One Who Goes Into the Sea ("Та, що входить у море"), director *1968 - The Stone Cross ("Камінний хрест"), director; late 2009 saw the beginning of the digital restoration of this film. *1968 - Who return, will love to the end ("Хто повернеться — долюбить"), director *1971 - Zakhar Berkut ("Заxap Бepкут"), director *1976 - The Disturbed Month of September ("Тривожний місяць вересень"), director *1978 - Sea ("Море"), director *1985 - Earth-reaching bowing ("Вклонися до землі"), director, writer *1987 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Bird Marked With Black
''The White Bird Marked with Black'' ( ua, Білий Птах З Чорною Ознакою, Bilyi Ptakh z Chornoyu Oznakoyu', russian: Белая птица с чёрной отметиной, Belaya ptitsa s chornoy otmetinoy) is a 1971 Soviet period drama film directed by Yuri Ilyenko. It was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival and won the Golden Prize. Plot The plot takes place between 1937 and 1947, in a little, traditional Hutsul village in Northern Bukovina. The Zvonars are a poor family of musicians, who eke out a living by performing in the local celebrations. Both older brothers, Petro and Orest, are in love with Dana, the priest's beautiful daughter. Their younger brother, Heorhii, is a dreamlike adolescent who is attracted to the village's witch, Vivdya. In 1940, the Romanian authorities cede the territory to the Soviets. Dana falls for a Red Army officer named Ostap and decides to marry him. On the day of their wedding, the Germans and Romania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Ilyenko
Yuri Herasymovych Ilyenko ( uk, Юрій Герасимович Іллєнко, 18 July 1936 – 15 June 2010) was a Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and politician. He directed twelve films between 1965 and 2002. His 1970 film ''The White Bird Marked with Black'' was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize. Ilyenko was one of Ukraine's most influential filmmakers. His films represented Ukraine and what was happening to it. His films were banned in the Soviet Union, USSR for their suspected anti-Soviet symbolism. Only in the recent years have his films been re-released and open to the public. Biography Ilyenko was born in Cherkasy in 1936 but during Eastern Front (World War II), World War II his family was evacuated to Siberia while his father was in the Red Army. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Letter (1972 Film)
''The Lost Letter'' ( uk, Пропала грамота, Propala hramota, russian: Пропавшая грамота, Propavshaya gramota) is a 1972 Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The film is based on the novella '' The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church'' by Nikolai Gogol from the 1832 cycle ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka''. Synopsis Cossack Vasyl (Ivan Mykolaichuk) prepares himself for a mounted voyage to Peterburg, the capital of the Russian Empire. Vasyl carries a hramota (sealed official document) given to him by the hetman through his secretary, Pereverny-Kruchenko, that is rumored to cost ten poods of gold. Vasyl's wife sews the hramota into his hat, and his father (Vasyl Symchych) gives him magic tobacco to repel evil and advice to find a good co-journeyman. The film depicts the adventures of Vasyl in sequences that are filled with Ukrainian culture, and shows Ukrainian cuisine, costumes, traditions, mystical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borys 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] |
