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Videos and films

ID:
62539
Place
Atiusha village (Chernihiv region)
Date:
1988/1989
Genre:
Amateur film
Technique:
16 mm film
Duration:
00:13:11 min
Color:
color
Sound:
Magnetic tape
Creator
Dmytro Kozel
Collection
Volnytsia People's Film Studio
Description
The film contains an amateur film report about Green Sunday:

1) 00:00:07 - 00:03:44 — The village of Atiusha. Nature in the rain. A man plows a plot of land. A GAZ-52 truck drives along a country road. St. Nicholas Church. Choral singing by women in folk costumes. Girls weave birch branches and lead a round dance to the women's singing. Prayer and Orthodox hymns are layered over the scene. A girl dressed in green is driven through the village, stopping in yards. Ivan Mykolayovych Pylypets and his wife treat the girls to cookies and candy, then escort them to the bus.

2) 00:03:45 - 00:13:02 — Women and girls dance at the festival to accordion and tambourine. Amateur theater sketches feature hunters and visitors to a fair. A satirical scene about drunkards. "Gypsies" tell fortunes to officials and Ivan Pylypets. A performance by the choir. Portrait shots of families with children at the festival. Halyna Kozel appears with her grandchildren. St. Nicholas Church. The Desna River. Vitaliy Bilonozhko's song God, Give Ukraine Freedom! (Боже, дай Україні волю!) is played.

Voice-over poetic narration by L. Petrenko.

The second audio track serves as an editing cue sheet for the film and contains a frame-by-frame description of persons, objects, actions, and editing plans. It is emotional: Dmytro Kozel enthusiastically voices the actions on screen and names the people involved.
Language:
Ukrainian
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