March 31, 2005, Lviv.

The video shows a fragment of a festive literary evening dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the creation of the literary group “Bu-Ba-Bu” (Burlesque, Balagan, Bufonada): performance by Viktor Neborak, Oleksandr Irvanets, Yuri Andrukhovych; posters; audience in the hall, various shots.

Reference: “Bu-Ba-Bu” (Burlesque-Balagan-Bufonada) is a Ukrainian literary group founded in 1985 in Lviv by Yuri Andrukhovych (Patriarch), Viktor Neborak (Procurator) and Oleksandr Irvanets (Pidskarbiy). The association became a symbol of carnival thinking and aesthetic rebellion of the transitional era, combining poetry with elements of theatrical action. The most active period of activity was in the late 1980s — early 1990s.

Anniversary readings of “Bu-Ba-Bu”

August 21, 2010, Kyiv.

Footage of the funeral of Ukrainian writer Oles Ulyanenko. St. Michael's Cathedral, the coffin, the funeral service, the writer's mother at the coffin; archive footage: Oles Ulyanenko is walking near the shelves with books, leafing through his book “The Woman of His Dreams”; Hanna Herman is paying tribute, people with wreaths.

Comments: Oles Ulyanenko's literary agent Yevheniya Chupryna; head of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine Volodymyr Yavorivsky; friend of Oles Ulyanenko Oles Doniy; editor-in-chief of the newspaper Slovo Oleksandr Suprunyuk.

Funeral of writer Oles Ulyanenko

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1997.

The TV film “Generation” is dedicated to the work of the poet Mykola Syngayivskyi.

The author recites his poems: “Ivan's Rainbow”, “About the Revolution”, “Generation”, “Singayivtsi”, “Earth, I Hear You”, Ballad about the Rider, “My Comrade is the International”.

Contains elements of propaganda.

Reference: Mykola Syngayivskyi is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, journalist, known as the author of the song “Chornobrivtsi”. He worked in literary editorial offices, wrote for children and adults. The theme of Ukraine, folk songs, as well as Bulgarian culture occupied a special place in his work. Laureate of the Oleksandr Boychenko awards, an international literary and artistic award was founded in his honor.

Mykola Syngayivskyi's recitation

Ukrainian Studio of Television Films, 1994.

The TV film “Build it strong and high...” is dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian writer Bohdan Lepky. The film was shot in the Lviv and Ternopil regions.

On the video: various monuments to Bohdan Lepky, scientists talk about the author, demonstrate publications during his lifetime; various books by Bohdan Lepky; the play “Mazepa”.

The film uses fragments from the play “Mazepa” by the Lviv Academic Theater named after Maria Zankovetska.

Comments: writer Roman Horak; Doctor of Philology Fedir Pogrebennyk; actor, director Fedir Stryhun.

Reference: Bohdan Lepky (1872—1941) — Ukrainian writer, poet, literary critic and artist, whose work was banned for a long time. Author of historical novels, short stories, poems, literary studies, in particular the cycle about Mazepa and the song "Cranes", which became the anthem of the Sich Riflemen. Actively translated, arranged and edited classical Ukrainian texts, contributing to the popularization of Ukrainian literature. His legacy includes more than 80 of his own books and numerous translations, which had a significant impact on the development of Ukrainian culture.

Bohdan Lepky “Build it strong and high...”

The program “Masters of Humor”. The program is based on the works and diaries of Ostap Vyshnia. The works are performed by: Anatolii Palamarenko, Pavlo Hromovenko, Anatolii Lytvynov, Volodymyr Ivchenko, Yurii Krytenko, Mykhailo Zadniprovskyi, Volodymyr Tkachenko, Yurii Samsonov. 

On the video: Sorochynska Fair, the main entrance, folk festivities.

Info: Ostap Vyshnia (Pavlo Hubenko) was born on a farm near the town of Hrun in Poltava region (now Sumy region). He is a Ukrainian writer, novelist, classic of satirical prose of the twentieth century, and the founder of the humorous type of feuilleton, the “smile.”

He was a prisoner of Stalin's concentration camps. In 1934, he was sentenced to 10 years in the camps for a “terrorist plot”. He served his sentence in the Ukhtym-Pechora camp. In 1937, he was supposed to be executed, but the order for Ostap Vyshnia's execution was lost. In 1943, Oleksandr Dovzhenko persuaded the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Mykyta Khrushchev to get Stalin to release Ostap Vyshnia. 

Masters of humor. Ostap Vyshnia

Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia State TV and Radio Company, 2001.

The program “Living History of Zaporizhzhia” is about the work of the writer Petro Rebra. The writer recites his poetry, talks about the importance of Khortytsia Island for him, the role of Pavlo Tychyna, Mykola Nahnybida, Ostap Vyshnia, Stepan Oliynyk, Volodymyr Sosiura, Mykhailo Cherevko, Vasyl Lysniak, and Mykhailo Zolotikhin in his literary fate.

Writer from Zaporizhzhia Petro Rebro

Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia State TV and Radio Company, 2009.

The program “People and Fates”, part one, is dedicated to the writer and public figure Petro Rebru. The program uses black-and-white footage of Zaporizhzhia, the Poetic May festival, photos of Ukrainian writers, their books with inscriptions, Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar with autographs of world writers who were contemporaries of Petro Rebra. 

“People and destinies": writer Petro Rebro

February 12, 2004, Chernivtsi.

Author's evening of the laureate of literary awards, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, poet Mykola Buchko.

The program includes: a performance by Professor of the Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University Nadiya Babych; Anna's monologue from the poem "Dust" performed by actress Larisa Popenko; the song "Mama" performed by Mykola Zadorozhnyak (concertmaster Natalia Danylyshyn); the dance theater "Arabesques"; Mykola Buchko recites the dramatic poem "The Second Me", "The Passion of the Evangelist Matthew", "The Prophet, or the Last Night of Taras Shevchenko"; Ophelia's monologue and Joan of Arc's monologue performed by Valentyna Holovko; recitation by Lyudmila Skrypka; chamber choir of the regional philharmonic (artistic director and chief conductor Honored Worker of Culture Vasyl Halychansky); performances by young writers: Vitalina Protsyuk, Yulia Bodnar, Maryna Tymofiychuk, Khrystyna Venhrynuk; performance by participants of the “Barvy” studio: Alina Bosovych, Iryna Bozychko, Snizhana Shynkarenko, Tetyana Yukhno, Larisa Bilova, Olga Ivanova, Alla Kobylyanska; recitation by theater actress Valentyna Volovko; Oksana Savchuk sings.

Comments: Deputy Head of the Department of Culture of the Regional State Administration Vyacheslav Mykhalchuk; Deputy Head of the Department of Education and Science of the Regional State Administration Bohdan Poturnak; Head of the Department of Family and Youth Affairs of the Chernivtsi City Council Nataliya Kotsur; Father Valeriy Syrotyuk.

Reference: Mykola Ivanovych Buchko is a Ukrainian poet, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine. Laureate of the Petro Usenko, Dmytro Zagul and Stepan Vorobkevych prizes. Author of poetry collections, including "Sunrises", "Towards Summer", as well as a translator of works by Romanian writers. The leading themes of his work are the memory of those who died in war, the establishment of peace, goodness, justice and the search for truth.

Mykola Buchko: author's evening “In the light of the word”

Sumy Television. The December 15, 2000 issue of the “Countrymen” program is dedicated to the life and work of the poet-humorist Ostap Vyshna. Contains two parts.

On the video: the village of Hrun, Sumy region, various views; archival photographs of Ostap Vyshna; the ethnographic corner in Hrun "Ostapova krynytsia" with a Ukrainian stove, a portrait of Ostap Vyshna under an embroidered towel; the Ostap Vyshna memorial museum, books, photographs, clothes and dishes of the poet-humorist; a thematic exhibition in the Hrun village library; the burial place of the poet-humorist, a monument on the grave.

Contains fragments of black and white chronicles.

Comments: village head of the Hrun territorial community Lyudmila Pylypenko; head of the Hrun library Tetyana Sokol; deputy director of the Hrun school, linguist Valentyna Lavrynenko.

The following authors worked on the issue: Lyudmila Chugay, Olena Shevchenko, Natalia Narodnytska, Viktor Lanchenko, Valentina Zhuk.

Reference: Ostap Vyshnya (Pavlo Gubenko) is a Ukrainian writer, humorist and satirist of the 20th century. He gained popularity thanks to the creation of a new genre of "usmishka" — a type of feuilleton and humoresque, which became the basis of his work. During his life, he experienced numerous arrests and imprisonment in Soviet camps, but continued to write even in difficult conditions.

Ostap Vyshnya — master of Ukrainian satire

Chernivtsi, 1975.

Black and white fragment of a recitation by Ukrainian poetess Paraska Ambrosiy.

Presents her collection “Snowdrops” (1976, “Veselka” publishing house).

Reference: Paraska Ambrosiy is a Ukrainian folk poet, author of numerous poetry collections, including “Bukovynski spivanka” and “Kvituje moya Bukovyna”. She worked under the influence of Ukrainian folklore and classics of Ukrainian literature, including Taras Shevchenko, Yuriy Fedkovych and Ivan Franko. Her poetry is distinguished by the use of folk-poetic motifs, and many poems have been translated into different languages.

Recital by Paraska Ambrosius, 1975

TV and Radio Company “Ltava”. The program “Poltava Known and Unknown: A Retro-View” for July 4, 1999 is dedicated to the life and creative path of the Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotlyarevsky.

The writer’s biography is told, contains fragments of the reconstruction and the exposition of the Literary and Memorial Museum named after Ivan Petrovich Kotlyarevsky, the Memorial Complex “I. P. Kotlyarevsky’s Estate”.

Host — Yulia Mayorchyk.

Reference: Ivan Kotlyarevsky is a Ukrainian writer, military and public figure, a classic of new Ukrainian literature. His poem “Aeneid” became an important work of national importance, and the plays “Natalka Poltavka” and “Moskal-charivnyk” initiated a new stage in the development of the Ukrainian literary language.

The life and work of Ivan Kotlyarevsky

November 2002, Kyiv.

In the video, the writer-sixtiers Dmytro Pavlychko, talks about the poet's literary contribution of Andriy Malyshko at an event dedicated to the 90th anniversary of his birth.

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