There Is No End to the Cossack Kin

Videos and films

ID:
62512
Place
Korop village (Chernihiv region)
Date:
1991
Genre:
Amateur film
Technique:
16 mm film
Duration:
00:10:57 min
Color:
color
Creator
Dmytro Kozel
Collection
Volnytsia People's Film Studio
Description
The film contains an amateur film report about a holiday in Baturyn:

1) 00:00:14 - 00:00:34 — Church domes. Riders on horseback along a country road.

2) 00:00:35 - 00:01:56 — A beach by the river. Tourists walking across a bridge. A tent city under Ukrainian flags. Vacationers on the beach. Festival guests dressed in national costumes and Cossack attire. The writer Ivanyshyn is present.

3) 00:01:57 - 00:03:40 — Baturyn. A group of people in Cossack costumes with banners follows a priest. People in embroidered shirts sing and converse near the House of Culture. The songs Hey There on the Mountain Sich Is Coming (Гей там на горі Січ іде) and Oh on the Mountain the Reapers Are Reaping (Ой на горі тай женці жнуть) are heard.

4) 00:03:41 - 00:04:30 — Korop village. A gathering near the monument to Lenin. A rally in embroidered shirts and a march with flags from the executive committee building.

5) 00:04:31 - 00:06:40 — Baturyn. Participants of the holiday, carrying flags, follow priests who bless the gathering. Stage performances. Choir performance. Procession of participants under flags toward Konotop. Traffic police salute the marchers. Priests bless newlyweds. A memorial sign on the path taken during the reburial procession of Taras Shevchenko in 1861. Unveiling of a memorial sign at the site of Hetman Ivan Mazepa's residence. Consecration of the site. Choir singing. The bell tower of the Resurrection Church in Baturyn. Musical accompaniment includes the song Hey, You, Brothers, Cossacks (Гей, ви, браття, козаченьки), various folk songs, and church hymns.

The film is accompanied by a poetic and uplifting voice-over commentary by the narrator.

The second audio track serves as an editing cue sheet and contains a frame-by-frame description of persons, objects, actions, and editing plans. Dmytro Kozel names the people involved.
Language:
Ukrainian
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