Years of life. First part of the film

Videos and films

ID:: 65467
Place: Carpathians Lviv Lviv region (Ukraine)
Date:: 1967
Genre:: Amateur film
Technique:: 16 mm film
Color:: black and white
Sound:: Sound
Collection: Ukrainian Society of the Deaf (USD)
Description: This is the first part of the film "Years of Life". The year 1938. Deaf woodcutter Stefan works in the Carpathians. Hard work and beatings from a cruel supervisor are interrupted by a tragic accident - a felled tree falls on Stefan. After his injury, he begs in Lviv. Deaf Mariika went to the city in search of a better life and works in a laundry. She meets Stefan on the street. The year 1939. The Soviet takeover of Lviv gives Stefan and Mariika housing, bread, and work, and forces the Poles to flee. Mariika works as an apple picker on a collective farm. The couple gives birth to a daughter, Rada, but their family life is interrupted by the Nazi occupation of Lviv in 1941.
Language:: Ukrainian
Tags:: cinema, film, deaf, lumberjack, washerwoman, Christianity, communism, folklore, collective farm, family, Nazis