A Flax Blossoms. Victory Day
- ID: 62498
- Place: Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1977-05-09
Videos and films
- ID:
- 62498
- Place
- Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date:
- 1977-05-09
- Genre:
- Amateur film
- Technique:
- 16 mm film
- Duration:
- 00:14:18 min
- Color:
- color
- Sound:
- Magnetic tape
- Creator
- Dmytro Kozel
- Collection
- Volnytsia People's Film Studio
- Description
-
The film contains an amateur film report on the celebrations of the 32nd anniversary of the Victory in World War II:
1) 00:00:23 - 00:03:38 -— Serene landscapes and ambient sounds of the Polissya countryside. Flax fields on a collective farm. Horses grazing in a pasture. Liubov Kozel with Halyna (Kozel) Antonenko, Svitlana, and a bouquet of lilies of the valley. The ruins of the bell tower of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Rural ponds and garden flowers. This sequence is accompanied by the choral performance of A Flax Blossoms (А льон цвіте), with lyrics by Vasyl Yukhymovych and music by Ivan Sliota.
2) 00:03:39 - 00:05:56 — Mourning rally at a mass grave of Soviet soldiers. Reburial of remains of those who died in World War II. Speech by Vasyl Ivanovych Sokol. Car rally with flags and urn. Procession through village streets. Spectators taking photos along the road. Voice-over: poems We Are Twenty Million (Нас двадцать миллионов) by Rasul Gamzatov (transl. Yakov Kozlovskyi), The Sorrow of Blossom (Печаль цвітіння) by Anatolii Taran.
3) 00:05:57 - 00:11:44 — Arrival of procession to the grave of 84 Soviet soldiers, who died defending the village in August 1941. Wreath-laying.
Liubov and Valentyna are reading of the fallen’s names. Close-ups of children in the crowd. Veterans’ medals. Pioneer salute. Ceremony attendees. Voice-over: poems: How Many Warriors Are Now in Granite... (Сколько воинов нынче в граните...) by Viktor Potievskyi, Requiem (Eternal Glory to Heroes) (Реквием (Вечная слава героям)) by Robert Rozhdestvensky, and the song In the Steppe, Steppe... (Степом, степом...) — lyrics by Mykola Nehoda, music by Anatolii Pashkevych.
4) 00:11:45 - 00:13:20 — Newlyweds and wedding guests walking down the street to lay flowers at the mass grave. Wedding motorcade of VAZ-2101 cars moving away. Voice-over: an excerpt Remember (Помните) from Robert Rozhdestvensky’s Requiem (Eternal Glory to Heroes).
The second audio track features the voices of Dmytro Kozel and his daughter Halyna. They provide a frame-by-frame description of objects, actions, and people. The girl identifies and names children in the crowd. This voice-over montage card does not include descriptions of the wedding scenes from 00:11:45 to 00:13:20.
The film takes place in the village of Zhovtneve (modern Rozhdestvenske). - Language:
- Russian, Ukrainian
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