Come back to me my memory

Come back to me my memory
The first film of documentary trilogy Black Candle of the Bright Road In memory of Vasyl Stus covers the events of Vasyl Stuss life from birth to the beginning of the 70s It contains interviews with his mother Iryna Stus comrade Vasyl Shymanskyi Roman Korohodskyi Vyacheslav Chornovil Mykhailyna Kotsyubynska Marharyta Dovhan and others photos from the times school and institute studies army service postgraduate study at the Institute of Literature fragments from letters and essays
WritersStanislav ChernilevskyiVolodymyr ShovkoshytnyiDmytro Stus

Movie Details

Original Language:Ukrainian
Production Companies:Halychynafilm
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vasyl stus

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).