April 14, 2014, Kyiv.

The plot is dedicated to the presentation of the book "War Never Ends" by Georgian writer Basa Dzhanikashvili within the framework of the International Festival "Book Arsenal".

On the video: a meeting with the writer, presentation of the book.

Comments: writer Basa Dzhanikashvili (in Russian), publisher Petro Matskevich, translator Georgy Arabuli.

Journalist — Irina Lysenko.

Reference: Basa Dzhanikashvili is a Georgian writer, playwright and media manager, author of novels and plays, laureate of the "SABA" award and international drama competitions. His works have been staged in theaters in Georgia, Austria and Scotland.

Basa Dzhanikashvili: "War Never Ends'"

May 29, 2013, Kyiv.

The plot is dedicated to a meeting with the Polish writer Janusz Wyszniewski within the framework of the International Book Arsenal Festival.

In the video: a meeting with the writer, a presentation of Ukrainian translations; the book "Marcelinka", children read excerpts from the books. Writer Janusz Wyszniewski comments.

Created by: Darya Tarasova, Yevhen Polinkevich.

Reference: Janusz Leon Wyszniewski is a Polish scientist and writer, doctor of chemistry and computer science, a specialist in the field of bioinformatics. The author of numerous scientific works and the world's first program for automatically generating systematic names of organic compounds; among his literary works is a story for children "Marcelinka".

Arsenal Book Festival: Janusz Wyszniewski

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2002.

The episode of the program "Chronicle of the 20th Century" is dedicated to the Ukrainian writer Yuriy Yanovsky.

On the video: photos from the archive of the writer's friends, the Kyiv apartment where Yuriy Yanovsky lived, different angles; landscapes of Kyiv; fragments of interviews: writers Mykola Bazhan, Oles Honchar and actresses Polina Nyatko, Vira Predayevych recall Yuriy Yanovsky.

Contains archive recordings of the National Television of Ukraine for the 1980s and fragments of black-and-white chronicles of World War II.

Excerpts from the writer's works are read by Raisa Nedashkivska, Oleksandr Konchev, Volodymyr Zhoglo. The song to the words of Yuriy Yanovsky is performed by Nataliya Buchel.

Reference: Yuriy Yanovsky is a Ukrainian writer and poet, a representative of the romantic movement in literature, the author of the iconic novels "Master of the Ship", "Riders" and "Four Sabres". He worked as an editor of the magazine "Ukrainian Literature", was a war correspondent during World War II. 

Yuriy Yanovsky — Master of the Ship of Ukrainian Prose

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2002.

The episode of the program "Chronicle of the 20th Century" is dedicated to the journalist, Ukrainian writer Ivan Bahryany.

The following will tell the writer's biography and demonstrate first editions: literary critic Mykola Zhulynsky; head of the manuscripts department of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine Serhiy Halchenko; writer Oleksandr Shugay.

Excerpts from Ivan Bahryany's works were read by: "Tiger Hunters" — Pavlo Gromovenko, "Marusya Boguslavka" — Lesya Lipchuk.

Reference: Ivan Bahryany is a Ukrainian writer, poet, publicist and political figure, author of the novels "Tiger Hunters" and "The Garden of Gethsemane", which are based on his experience of repression and exile. An active participant in the Ukrainian liberation movement, in emigration he founded the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party and headed the Ukrainian National Council.

Ivan Bahryany: "Chronicle of the 20th Century"

October 2, 2006, the city of Okhtyrka, Sumy region.

A plot for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous Ukrainian writer Ivan Bahryany.

On the video: Okhtyrka, various landscapes; Ivan Bahryany's House-Museum, various plans; fellow countrymen and relatives of Bahryany talk about the creator, various plans for the museum.

Comments: Chairman of the Okhtyrka City Veterans Council Volodymyr Trotsenko; husband of Ivan Bahryany's niece Mykola Progonov; historians Oleksandr Galkin and Vadym Skurativskyi; researcher at the Okhtyrka Historical and Local History Museum Lyudmila Mishchenko.

Reference: Ivan Bahryany is a Ukrainian writer, publicist and political figure, one of the most powerful voices of emigration literature. Author of the novels "Tiger Hunters" and "The Garden of Gethsemane", in which he truthfully depicted the experience of Soviet repressions and camps even before Solzhenitsyn. After the war, he became a co-founder of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party, edited the newspaper "Ukrainian News" and headed the Ukrainian National Council in exile. His work is a combination of sharp political criticism, humanism and faith in the power of the Ukrainian spirit.

Ivan Bahryany: 100th anniversary of his birth

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2004.

The program of the multi-part series "Not with the Only Bread..." tells about the history of writing the book by Dmytro Stus "Vasyl Stus: Life as Creativity".

Contains fragments of the play "Palimpsest" based on the works of Vasyl Stus performed by People's Artist of Ukraine Halyna Stefanova.

Comments: Doctor of Philology, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Mykola Zhulynsky; philologist, son of the writer Dmytro Stus; critic Tetyana Shcherbachenko.

"Vasyl Stus: Life as Creativity"

Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program "The Path over the Abyss" for February 2, 2008, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the sixties writer, writer and famous Sumy journalist Yuriy Tsaryk.

On the video: various editions of Yuriy Tsaryk’s prose; an interview, Yuriy Tsaryk about his work, about the publication of his first collection; photos from the personal archive of the hero of the program; landscapes of the city of Sumy.

Comments: writer Yuriy Tsaryk; poet Vasyl Budyansky; head of the Sumy Regional Writers’ Union Oleksandr Vertil.

The program was created by: Viktoriya Krasnoplakhta, Serhiy Surkov, Olena Borysenko, Serhiy Konoz.

Reference: Yuriy Tsaryk is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, member of the National Union of Ukrainian Writers, laureate of the Mykola Khvylovy Prize, participant in the protest movement of the sixties in Sumy and a political prisoner of the Soviet regime. The author of deep psychological prose and ironic satire, he left behind eight books in his creative output, in which he combined the honesty of his worldview and a subtle sense of life.

Sumy "sixties": Yuriy Tsaryk

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. 

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