Ukrainian Film Screening: "Taras Bulba" (Director: Vladimir Bortko, Russia, 2009)
Thursday, February 11, 2010 — 7:00PM - 9:00PM Innis Townhall, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave
Screening and panel discussion of TARAS BULBA, 2009, director Vladimir Bortko, Russian Federation. Vladimir Bortko made this film inspired by the famous Nikolai Gogol story about love, betrayal, and revenge. Released in Ukraine last April and widely distributed there, this film provoked a small storm among the Ukrainian public by its unapologetic neo-colonialist politics and ideology. It is an interesting document of post-Soviet Russian revanchism made fascinating by an enthusiastic participation of Ukrainian talent in the project, including the actors Bohdan Stupka, Ada Rohovtseva, Les Serdiuk, the artist Serhiy Yakutovych, to name but a few. Notes Russian reviewer Roman Volobuev, “Bortko, known for his pedantic treatment of literary texts, in this case, chopped Gogol up into a salad and made use of only those its pieces that will insult the greatest number of inhabitants of sovereign Ukraine.” Insult or not, but the film reveals quite a lot about present-day Russia and Ukraine.
Panel: Taras Koznarsky (Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages, UofT), Leo Livak (Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages, UofT), Piotr Wrobel (Chair of Polish History, UofT) and Yuri Shevchuk (Columbia University), will discuss the film after the screening.
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