''The Guide'' ( uk, Поводир, ''Povodyr'') is a 2014 Ukrainian
drama film
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directed by
Oles Sanin. It was selected as the Ukrainian entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
87th Academy Awards
The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2014 and took place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 ...
,
but was not nominated. There was some controversy over the selection of the film in Ukraine regarding the voting process.
There is a special
audiodescripted version for blind people.
Plot
Soviet Ukraine
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
, 1930s. American
engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...
Michael Shamrock arrives in
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.[socialism
Socialism is a left-wing Economic ideology, economic philosophy and Political movement, movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to Private prop ...]
". He falls in love with an actress Olga who has another admirer,
Commissar Vladimir.
Under tragic circumstances, the American is killed and his son is saved from his pursuers by a blind bard (
kobzar
A ''kobzar'' ( ua, кобзар, pl. kobzari ua, кобзарі) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed bandura or kobza.
Tradition
Kobzars were often blind and became predominantly so b ...
). With no other chance to survive in a foreign land, the boy becomes his guide.
Cast
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Stanislav Boklan as Ivan Kocherga
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Jeff Burrell as Michael Shamrock
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Anton Sviatoslav Greene as Peter Shamrock
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Oleksandr Kobzar as Comrade Vladimir
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Iryna Sanina as Orysia
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Jamala
Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova, ; rus, Суса́на Али́мовна Джамалади́нова, Susána Alímovna Dzhamaladínova, sʊˈsanə ɐˈlʲiməvnə dʐəməlɐˈdʲinəvə, links=yes. (born 27 August 1983), known professionally ...
as Olga
Awards and nominations
See also
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List of Ukrainian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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Persecuted bandurists Kobzars and bandurists were a unique class of musicians in Ukraine, who travelled between towns and sang dumas, a meditative poem-song. Kobzars were usually blind, and required the completion of a three-year apprenticeship in specialized Kobzar gu ...
* ''
Famine-33
''Famine-33'' ( uk, Голод-33, ''Holod-33'') is a 1991 drama film by Oles Yanchuk about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, and based on the novel ''The Yellow Prince'' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family ...
'' (1991)
References
External links
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Official website of THE GUIDEPovodyr(The Guide) - Pressbook
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2014 films
2014 drama films
2010s historical drama films
Ukrainian historical drama films
Ukrainian-language films
Films set in Ukraine
Films about the Holodomor