National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2001.

The episode of the program "Heroes of Ukraine" is dedicated to the Ukrainian track and field athlete (pole vault), world champion Sergey Bubka.

On the video: footage of Sergey Bubka's performances accompanied by a story about his sports career; a monument in Donetsk is shown; fragments of press conferences where Sergey Bubka announces the end of his career; a speech by the head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, Viktor Yanukovych, who reads out the presidential decree on awarding Bubka the title of Hero of Ukraine.

Recordings of Sergey Bubka's performances at the world championships were used: in Helsinki in 1983, in Rome in 1987, in Tokyo in 1991, in Stuttgart in 1993, in Gothenburg in 1995 and in Athens in 1997.

Author — Yefim Sharpansky.

Sergey Bubka — the legend of athletics

Ukrainian television film studio, 1991.

The film Death is Fated for All of Us is dedicated to the memory of the Ukrainian artist and dissident Alla Horska.

The following people share their memories of the human rights activist: artist Liudmyla Semykina, artist Opanas Zalyvakha, writer Yevhen Sverstiuk, poet Ivan Svitlychnyi and his wife Leonida Svitlychna, MP Les Taniuk, and Alla Horska's son Oles Zaretskyi.

The film uses works by Alla Horska and Viktor Zaretsky, and features poems by Vasyl Stus and Ivan Svitlychnyi.

Reference: Alla Horska is a Ukrainian artist of the Sixties, one of the most famous figures of the human rights movement of the 1960s. Her artistic oeuvre includes painting, graphics, and monumental and decorative art. Her style combines the influences of the Ukrainian avant-garde, folk art, and boychukism. She died tragically in 1970. 

“Flower on the Volcano”: in memory of Alla Horska

2006, National Television Company of Ukraine. The documentary film The Story of Yaroslav Dashkevych is dedicated to the Dashkevych family - Yaroslav, his father Roman, and his mother Olena Stepaniv.

Interviews with Yaroslav Dashkevych, memories of his childhood and parents: his father, Roman Dashkevych, colonel-brigadier of artillery, one of the organizers of the Sich Riflemen; his mother, Olena Stepaniv, historian, geography teacher, public and military figure; the first woman in the world to be officially enlisted in the military service as an officer, and a leader of the Ukrainian Galician Army.

The film uses a lot of black-and-white footage of Lviv, photographs of the UPA, and photos of J. Dashkevych and his parents from personal archives.

Comments: Professor of Lviv University Oleh Shabliy; Candidate of Historical Sciences Anna Kos; former political prisoners Ihor Kalynets and Iryna Kalynets.

Author: Theodosia Zarivna.

History of the Dashkevich family

2005, Zaporizhzhia State TV and Radio Company. The program from the series “Living History of Zaporizhzhia” is dedicated to a physics specialist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor David Levinson.

The interview with David Levinzon is about his work at the Zaporizhzhia Titanium and Magnesium Plant, the production of profiled crystals and products for electronic equipment, and his work as a teacher at Zaporizhzhia universities.

The video features screensavers, the Zaporizhzhia Institute of State and Municipal Administration (since 2007, a Classical Private University), footage of working days, technical equipment, and student training.

Physicist David Levinson

April 29, 2016.

The plot is dedicated to the death of the outstanding Ukrainian opera singer, director and teacher Dmytro Hnatiuk. Archival footage: singing “Two Colors”, talking to a journalist, performance posters, film footage, interviews on TV channels, the Taras Shevchenko National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Ukraine, fragments of songs.

Dmytro Hnatiuk, the golden voice of Ukraine, dies

2005, National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine.

The video program “Dmytro Hnatiuk Sings” is dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian opera singer, director, and teacher. 
The program uses fragments of films and programs: “Dmytro Hnatiuk”, ‘Songs of Platon Maiboroda’, ‘My Love and Sorrow, Bukovyna’, ‘Memories of the Future’, ‘Dmytro Hnatiuk Sings’, ‘Songwriters of the Twentieth Century’.

Author: Svitlana Zasymenko.

Sung by Dmytro Hnatiuk

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1992.

The documentary film I Had a Dream is about the Aleshkins family, a couple of Ukrainian sculptors Oleksii and Liudmyla, and their children. The family left the city and went to live and create in the village of Bukatynka in Vinnytsia region.

The video shows the family's life and artistic works in the ancient traditions, stone sculptures in easel and monumental genres, and murals.

The author of the film: Viktor Vasylenko.

Aleshkins: a family of sculptors

April 25, 1997, Volyn television. The program “25 Minutes with B. P.” is dedicated to the Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, cinematographer, photographer, director and director of the Volyn People's Amateur Film Studio Borys Revenko.

The video features an interview with Borys Revenko. Photos from his personal archive, black-and-white chronicle, archives of the Volyn People's Amateur Film Studio.

Author: Liudmyla Chernetsova.

Interview with Borys Revenko

The film "Sofia's Day" from the series "Knights of the Spirit" is dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian teacher, founder of national preschool education — Sofia Rusova.

The film shows the unveiling of a memorial sign in her homeland — in the village of Oleshnya, Chernihiv region, where her relatives came from abroad. The current problems of Russification of Ukrainian youth and the importance of the return of national pedagogy are raised. A speech by artist Mykhailo Denysenko is heard, emphasizing the spiritual importance of Sofia Rusova's legacy for modern Ukraine.

Contains fragments of black-and-white chronicles.

Reference: Sofia Rusova — Ukrainian educator, teacher, literary critic and public figure of Swedish-French origin. Co-founder of the first kindergarten in Kyiv, theorist of preschool education and initiator of the Ukrainian national education system. Active participant in the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921, member of the Central Rada, feminist and popularizer of the Ukrainian language in education. 

Sofia Rusova — the voice of free education

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1992.

The film "Taras Melnychuk. Fate and Word" from the series "Knights of the Spirit" is dedicated to the Ukrainian dissident poet Taras Yuriyovich Melnychuk.

In an interview, Taras Melnychuk talks about his life path: about the torture he endured, the hell of Soviet camps, exile, persecution and the power of creativity.

Reference: Taras Melnychuk is a Ukrainian dissident poet, a victim of Soviet repressions and psychiatry, laureate of the Shevchenko Prize (1992) for the collection "Prince of Dew". He worked as a journalist, builder, logger, was repeatedly persecuted by the Soviet authorities for freethinking, arrested in 1972 and 1979. His poetic legacy was formed in the difficult conditions of camps, mental hospitals and censorship. In 1982, the collection "From Behind the Bars" was published in Toronto without the author's consent, and in independent Ukraine, Melnychuk's work gained recognition. 

Dissident poet Taras Melnychuk

2006, National Television Company of Ukraine. The video film “Maestro Bohdan Stupka. Benefit” is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the outstanding Ukrainian actor, People's Artist of Ukraine Bohdan Stupka.

The video includes screensavers, greetings from colleagues and government officials. The film includes fragments of theatrical performances in which the actor took part.

The video features: Ukrainian diplomat Markiyan Lubkivsky; People's Artist of Ukraine Bohdan Kozak; Honored Artist of Ukraine Yuriy Brylynsky; Honored Worker of Culture, Director of the Maria Zankovetska Theater Andriy Zankovetska Theater. Andriy Matsiak; People's Artist of Georgia Robert Sturua; director Hryhoriy Hladiy; Honored Artist of Ukraine Inna Kapinos; artist Serhiy Yakutovych; People's Artist of Ukraine Larysa Kadochnikova; People's Artist of Ukraine, academician Andriy Chebykin; Doctor of Art History, academician Rostyslav Kolomiets; theater critic Oleg Vergeles.

Maestro Bohdan Stupka. Benefit

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1990.

The TV film "Mykola Kolessa. Pages of Life" is dedicated to the life and creative path of the outstanding composer and conductor Mykola Filaretovych Kolessa.

Contains an extensive interview with Mykola Kolessa, unique photos from the personal archive and comments from the composer's close circle.

Comments and fragments of performances: the teaching staff of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory Maria Krushelnytska, Yuriy Lutsiv; student of the conservatory Adrian Shchur; artists of the Lviv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

Reference: Mykola Kolessa is a Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher, one of the founders of the modern Ukrainian conducting school. His music, in particular the "Ukrainian Suite", is distinguished by a deep national flavor and stylistic sophistication. As a conductor, Kolessa actively worked with leading orchestras and choirs, forming high standards of performing culture. The textbook "Fundamentals of Conducting Technique" became the basis for several generations of musicians. Among his students are prominent conductors who have glorified Ukrainian art far beyond the borders of the country.

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