Urban Media Archive
Укр
Center for Urban History
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It’s not for the Dead, It’s for the Living

Videos and films

ID:
62540
Place
Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
Date:
1981-05-09
Genre:
Amateur film
Technique:
16 mm film
Duration:
00:10:29 min
Color:
color
Sound:
Magnetic tape
Creator
Dmytro Kozel
Collection
Volnytsia People's Film Studio
Description
The film contains an amateur film about the unveiling of a memorial to the dead villagers:

1) 00:00:03 - 00:01:58 — A red flame. A rye field. Smoke. The song In the Steppe, Steppe... (Степом, степом…) plays. A voiceover recalls the events of the Second World War in the village in 1941. Gunfire is heard.

2) 00:01:59 - 00:06:50 — Zhovtneve (Rozhdestvenske) village. The unveiling of a memorial sign to the fallen villagers. Wreaths and flowers are laid. Rasul Gamzatov’s poem We Are Twenty Million, translated by Yakiv Kozlovsky, is recited off-screen. General shots of the audience, including Mykola Hrytsai. Speeches by Mykola Cherstvyi and veterans. The eternal flame. An excerpt Remember from the poem Requiem (Eternal Glory to the Heroes) by Robert Rozhdestvensky’s is read aloud. Children hold toy rockets.

3) 00:06:51 - 00:09:24 — A rally of GAZ-24, VAZ-2101, Moskvich-2140 cars, and Izh Jupiter motorcycles with flags. The song Victory Day (День победы) by David Tukhmanov (lyrics by Vladimir Kharitonov) plays. General shots of people attending the celebration with children.

4) 00:09:25 - 00:10:24 — Halyna (Kozel) Antonenko lays tulips at the eternal flame. A memorial sign. A cornflower field.

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. Dmytro Kozel first calls it a soundtrack to a film.
Language:
Ukrainian, Russian
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