There Is No End to the Cossack Kin
- ID: 62512
- Place: Korop village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1991
Videos and films
- ID:
- 62499
- Place
- Syniavka village (Chernihiv region) Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date:
- 1981-05-30
- Genre:
- Amateur film
- Technique:
- 16 mm film
- Duration:
- 00:14:07 min
- Color:
- black and white
- Sound:
- Magnetic tape
- Creator
- Dmytro Kozel
- Collection
- Volnytsia People's Film Studio
- Description
-
The film contains an amateur satirical film about moonshine production:
Rural landscapes. A woman with buckets in a field near a sheaf. Goats grazing. A man (Ivan Koshelenko) is snoring under a pine tree. A couple (Oleksandra Kuziura and Mykola Hrytsai) riding past in a cart. The driver drinks vodka. A wheel comes off: the passengers fall out at a bend together with a watermelon rolling to the sleeping man. The man grabs the watermelon and takes it home. In the yard he’s making a moonshine setup: yeast and sugar are poured into the watermelon, and the watermelon is wrapped with a chain. The man goes to invite his neighbor (Fedir Bondarenko). The host returns with a bottle. He lifts the tablecloth — reveals a watermelon with a tap. He pours moonshine, drinks, offers to the guest. Neighbors drink and eat. Suddenly, there is smoke from under the table and we hear and explosion. The house in ashes, and the men are thrown away: the owner — onto the roof of a barn, the guest — onto a garden fence. The ruins smolder, the dogs are barking. The man climbs down, runs around the sheaf in torn clothes, falls. Children are watching and laughing. Villagers raise the alarm, stop their field work and call for the fire department. A siren sounds in Zhovtneve (modern-day Rozhdestvenske). A car leaves the fire station. A man in a helmet harnesses up with a barrel, heads to the site of the explosion. Two neighbors lie unconscious in the fire. A crowd gathers, a woman crosses herself. The fireman arrives, pours water onto the men and they wake up.
A woman spits. The fire is extinguished. The men look at the ruins, the broken bottle, and walk away. The villagers wave after them.
The film is accompanied by music from the Alien Verses segment of This Merry Planet (Ця весела планета) (1973).
The second audio editing cue sheet is not a conventional frame-by-frame description. Instead, it is emotionally expressive, highly imaginative, and rich in epithets and sound imitations, which amplify the director’s artistic intent, adding vividness, rhythm, and comic exaggeration to the otherwise silent film.
Starring: Fedir Bondarenko, Mykola Hrytsai, Ivan Koshelenko, Oleksandra Kuzura, O. Chervyi. The film is set in the village of Siniavka. - Language:
- Russian
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