Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus

Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl StusCast and Crew

Movie

Cast

O
Oleksandr Kochnev
as (voice)
D
Dmytro Stus
V
Vasyl Stus
as (voice)
N
Nina Matviienko
as (sing)
V
Vitaliy Doroshenko
as (voice)
L
Leonid Yanovskiy
as (voice)
A
Alla Usenko
as (voice)
H
Halyna Demchuk
as (voice)
A
Agafya Bolotova
as (voice)
A
Aleksandr Movchan
as (voice)
A
Anatolii Yurchenko
as (voice)
B
Bohdan Beniuk
as (voice)
V
Vasyl Mazur
as (voice)
Y
Yuriy Kritenko
as (voice)
L
Lina Kostenko
as self

Crew

S
Stanislav Chernilevskyi
Director
S
Stanislav Chernilevskyi
Writer
V
Volodymyr Shovkoshytnyi
Writer
D
Dmytro Stus
Writer
N
Natalia Akayomova
Editor
B
Bohdan Pidhirnyi
Cinematography
M
Mykola Kalandionok
Compositor
V
Viktor Patsukevych
Compositor
V
Vasyl Bosovych
Producer
V
Volodymyr Kmetik
Producer

Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus (1992) - Documentary trilogy

Documentary trilogy about the thorny path of the famous Ukrainian poet, translator, political prisoner Vasyl Stus. Filmed in 1989-1992, it describes the life of the poet, the story of the destruction of the dissident by the Soviet authorities, highlights his influence on Ukrainian society during life and after his death, records the testimony of witnesses, films the liquidated Kuchino camp, in which Stus was imprisoned, the reburial of Stus, Lytvyn and Tykhy in 1989. Consists of three parts: «Come back to me, my memory» (Верни до мене, пам’яте моя), «In the white cold the sun of Ukraine» (У білій стужі сонце України), «Crucified on a black cross» (Розіп’ятий на чорному хресті).