The Hunt
- ID: 62500
- Place: Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1978-12-10
Videos and films
- ID:
- 62508
- Place
- Vyshenky village (Chernihiv region) Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region) Radychiv village (Chernihiv region) Nekhayivka village (Chernihiv region)
- Date:
- 1983
- Genre:
- Amateur film
- Technique:
- 16 mm film
- Duration:
- 00:14:50 min
- Color:
- black and white
- Creator
- Dmytro Kozel
- Collection
- Volnytsia People's Film Studio
- Description
-
The film presents the first issue of the satirical film magazine Zhakan, which highlights problems on collective farms in the Chernihiv region:
1) 00:00:09 - 00:00:57 — Flooded fields, despite the presence of floodgates. Background music: Maria Pakhomenko – There Is No Better Color Than That (Лучше нету того цвету).
2) 00:00:58 - 00:01:15 — Collective farms “Zorya” and “Ilyich’s Way.”
Footage of production plan tables. Background music: Mykola Hnatiuk – Big Summer (Большое лето).
3) 00:01:16 - 00:01:57 — “Pravda” collective farm. Functioning agricultural machinery, grazing cows. The farm appears well-managed.
4) 00:01:58 - 00:01:58 — Village of Vyshenky, “Ukraine” collective farm. Potato and beet fields overrun with weeds. Workers weed manually using hoes, while mechanics remain idle. Background music: Liudmyla Senchyna – Wildflowers (Полевые цветы). Tractor brigade equipment in disrepair; no expectation of repairs before harvest.
5) 00:05:43 - 00:07:18 — “Koropskyi” State Farm, Zhovtneve. Livestock farm: pens with cows, hay being dumped for horses. Barns lack locks.
6) 00:07:19 - 00:08:16 — Collective farm "Peremoha". Livestock farm with cows standing in mud after rain.
7) 00:08:17 - 00:08:49 — Village of Radychiv, “Iskra” collective farm. A “chime” made from tractor parts installed near the executive committee. Unrepaired, abandoned houses.
8) 00:08:50 - 00:11:15 — Village of Nehaivka, “Progress” collective farm. Outbuildings damaged by a storm. Pigs in makeshift sheds. Tired workers.
Broken hay baler of a tractor.
9) 00:11:16 - 00:12:14 — Village of Zhovtneve. Construction of a seed storage and processing facility halted. Background music: folk song The Neighbor’s House Is White (У сусіда хата біла) performed by Dmytro Hnatiuk.
10) 00:12:15 - 00:14:48 — Village of Korop. Thickets near the river, stray animals, and a garbage dump near the Desna restaurant. Background music: Stevie Wonder – I Wish. GAZ-53 trucks and a UAZ 452 ambulance on a potholed road. Bus station lacks basic passenger infrastructure. A man urinates near the station — only his legs are shown. A dog barks. It rains. Background music: Mykola Hnatiuk – Big Summer (Большое лето).
The film was produced by V. Nikitin, L. Petrenko, A. Makienko, and M. Rubanyk.
The soundtrack features a voice-over narration by L. Petrenko and unsynchronized remarks from people appearing on screen. The second audio track serves as an editing cue sheet, providing a frame-by-frame description of persons, objects, actions, and editing plans.
Emotional and humorous in tone — for example, Dmytro Kozel refers to an earthen mound as Mount Ararat. - Language:
- Ukrainian
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- ID: 62554
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