The Grain Farmers
- ID: 62514
- Place: Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1981
Videos and films
- ID:
- 62541
- Place
- Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date:
- 1983/1984
- Genre:
- Home movies
- Technique:
- 16 mm film
- Duration:
- 00:10:44 min
- Color:
- black and white
- Sound:
- Magnetic tape
- Creator
- Dmytro Kozel
- Collection
- Volnytsia People's Film Studio
- Description
-
The film contains footage of three weddings:
1) 00:00:03 - 00:05:47 — Korziuk’s wedding. Wedding guests dance to the accordion on the street in front of the house. A wedding ritual: men pull a cart with brides and ribboned branches through the flames, carrying a piece of meat on a stick ahead of them. A boy tries on the bridegroom’s cap. Guests dance. The meat is offered to guests on a stick, and they take a bite. Vodka is served. The feast. Musicians play, guests sing. Songs performed: Polissia Sayings (Поліські приказушки) and Shchedryk (lyrics by Oleksandr Bohachuk, music by Ivan Slyta), and And My Sweetheart Wants Varenyky.
2) 00:05:48 - 00:07:21 — Wedding. The hostess serves varenyky at the feast. Men push a wheelbarrow with the bride and groom toward a ditch by the road. Guests drink vodka from a kettle. A young man wears the uniform of a road trooper.
3) 00:07:22 - 00:10:43 — Rubets’s wedding. Men pull a wheelbarrow with the bride and groom along the village street, accompanied by guests and an accordion. Vodka is drunk from a kettle. The wheelbarrow with the newlyweds is pulled through flames. Guests dance. Polissia Sayings plays.
The film’s sound design consists of musical compositions. - Language:
- Ukrainian
Linked objects
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- ID: 62543
- Place: Rozhdestvenske village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1984/1985
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- ID: 62549
- Place: Atiusha village (Chernihiv region)
- Date: 1990
Let us Worship the Great Years
- ID: 62551
- Place: Kyiv
- Date: 1985-05-09