Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
Friday, October 17, 2008 —
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place
In the second installment of the program “An Unknown Oleksandr Dovzhenko” the full-length feature film “Ivan” by the founder of Ukrainian national cinema will be screened.
Made in 1932 on the eve of the Holodomor (Great Famine-Genocide in Ukraine), the film-poem is about the construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station (Dniprohes), about the life of a country lad by the name of Ivan, who along with other youth comes to build one of the greatest manifestations of the Soviet industrialization. Dovzhenko depicts the process of the protagonists transformation caused by industrialization.
Awards: The Venice International Film Festival, 1934, Award for the Best Program presented by a State (USSR)
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