August 25, 2003, Khust.

The plot is dedicated to the festival of national minorities of Ukraine "Sources of Tolerance".

On the video: camp, 140 representatives of 17 national cultural societies of Ukraine; comments of young representatives of communities; folk songs, dances.

Comments: representative of the Moldovan community from Odessa region Oleksandr Boyko; representative of the Greek community from Donetsk region Nikas Papatsenko; director of the camp "Sources of Tolerance" Svitlana Kandeeva.

"Sources of Tolerance": Festival of National Minorities

Transcarpathian Television, 2000. The cultural, artistic and educational program "Their Home is the Whole World" is dedicated to the life and traditions of the Romani community of Uzhhorod.

On the video: Romani music, folk songs; historical information about the resettlement of the Romani people, archival photographs; E.M. Adam talks about his family, where he studied, who his parents were, fragments of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Romani school in Uzhhorod; blacksmithing and crafts, shoe repair masters, wickerwork, dressmaking and other traditional Romani crafts; the headman of the Romani settlement Z.Y. Forkosh talks about the challenges of the Romani community; creative works of Romani craftsmen; a story about the difference between the housing of wealthy and poor Romani families; the first bell in the Romani school; A.Y. Adam talks about the problems of the Romani population and plans for the future, including support initiatives; E.A. Buchko presents the cultural center "Romani Yag".

Commented by representatives of the Romani community E.M. Adam, A.E. Adam, Z.Y. Forkosh and E.A. Buchko.

"Their Home is the Whole World": Life of the Romani Community

2001, National Television Company of Ukraine. Programme: ‘Carpathian Biosphere Reserve’.

The video features: opening sequences, the nature of the Carpathians, the flora and fauna of the reserve, the valley of daffodils near Khust, rare and endangered plant species, and the mountainous Rakhiv region. The director of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Dr Fedir Hamor, a Doctor of Biological Sciences, talks about the reserve.

Carpathian Biosphere Reserve

26 March 2005, Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast.

A report on bribery for obtaining a passport. Miru Street, St Martin’s Church, people in the corridors of the migration service, documents, people queuing, the Citizenship and Registration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Zakarpattia Oblast, staff, Mukachevo Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Comments: Viktor Baloha, Head of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration; Oksana Meshko, an employee of the Citizenship and Registration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Transcarpathian Region; Yuriy Rakhivsky, Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Transcarpathian Region.

A passport obtained in exchange for a bribe in Transcarpathia, 2005

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1988.

The documentary TV film "Uzhgorod — Nyredzhaza — Košice" is dedicated to the celebration of the anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia from the Nazis.

On the video: views of the cities of Uzhgorod, Nyredzhaza, Košice; a holiday on the Soviet-Czechoslovak border, an orchestra plays, a crowd of people; pioneer children give flowers to veterans, a Slovak veteran; the events take place in the first days of May; the Obelisk of Glory, veterans, laying flowers.

The film contains elements of Soviet propaganda.

TV film "Uzhgorod — Nyredzhaza — Košice"

1999, Transcarpathian Regional Television. The film ‘The Grandeur of Carpathian Ukraine’.

In the video: opening credits, Khust, the premises of the Ukrainian State Gymnasium, the First Sejm of Carpathian Ukraine, the proclamation of the independence of Carpathian Ukraine, Augustin Voloshyn – proclaimed President – and members of the Sejm. Black-and-white newsreel by Kalenyk Lysyuk – a Ukrainian from America – filmed on 15 March 1939. Resolutions of the Sejm are read out in the hall: 1. Renaming “Subcarpathian Rus” to “Carpathian Ukraine”. 2. Carpathian Ukraine is a republic. 3. The official language is Ukrainian. 4. The national colours of Carpathian Ukraine are a blue and yellow flag. 5. The national coat of arms is the Trident – the symbol of Saint Volodymyr the Great. 6. The national anthem is “Ukraine’s glory and freedom have not yet perished”. At the end of the film, there are contemporary shots of Krasne Pole near Khust, where a memorial cross has been erected to the Sich Riflemen shot in 1939. Shots featuring Vyacheslav Chornovil and Leonid Kuchma. Ivan Popovich’s song “Grant Us Unity, O God” plays.

The film "The Greatness of Carpathian Ukraine", 1999

Transcarpathian Television, 1996. The program "The World of His Hobbies" is dedicated to an interview with the Hutsul kolomyikar Stepan Moldavchuk from the village of Lazeshchyna.

In the video: Stepan Moldavchuk talks about his life, kolomyikas and the process of their creation, sings.

Host — Vira Kobulei.

Reference: Stepan Moldavchuk is a Hutsul amateur singer and folklore collector from the Rakhiv region, known as a carrier and popularizer of traditional Hutsul sung culture. During his life, he collected and recorded in a handwritten notebook several hundred kolomyikas and folk songs in different languages, some of which he created himself, and some he recorded from the oral tradition of the region. His activities contributed to the preservation of the folklore heritage of the Hutsul region and the popularization of historical and social motifs of the local song repertoire.

Kolomyikar Stepan Moldavchuk

Transcarpathian Television, 2001. The episode of the program "Years and Fates" is dedicated to the pianist and writer Margarita Nemesh.

In the video interview with Margarita Nemesh, she talks about raising six children, her creative and life path, her experience working in Yakutia, and plays the piano.

Host — Ivan Khlanta.

Reference: Margarita Nemesh is a Ukrainian writer, teacher, and concertmaster, a native of Transcarpathia. The author of the prose collections "Waves of the Heart", "Memory Tuning Fork", "The Last Chord", the founder of the Nemesh family ensemble, combined literary activity with pedagogical and musical practice.

"Years and Fates": Margarita Nemesh

1974, Lviv Television. Video without sound.

The video shows an underground salt sanatorium in Solotvyno, Zakarpattia Oblast. Snow-covered Carpathian Mountains, a village, a river, salt caves, patients at a doctor's appointment and undergoing health treatments, women in a salt mine.

Underground salt sanatorium in Solotvyna

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1982.

The TV film "Generous Field" is dedicated to the Uzhgorod Association for Growing Vegetables in Closed Soil.

On the video: Transcarpathia, landscapes of Uzhgorod, greenhouses; growing vegetables, different types of tomatoes, gardeners tying up plants; laboratory, workers at work, the process of assessing product quality; harvest.

The film is dubbed in russian languages. 

"Generous Field": Uzhgorod greenhouses

Transcarpathian Television, 2000. The program "Transcarpathia: at the crossroads of civilizations, nations, cultures" is dedicated to the history of Transcarpathia in the 20th century.

On the video: black-and-white chronicle, spring 1939, the proclamation of Carpathian Ukraine in Khust, proclaimed by Augustyn Voloshyn; autumn 1944, the occupation of Transcarpathia by the USSR, the accession of Transcarpathia to the Ukrainian SSR; a plot about the development of the region in the post-war period: factories, plants, hydroelectric power plants, gold mining from the Muzhiyiv deposit; castles of Transcarpathia; the history of the creation of the Transcarpathian folk choir; luminaries of the Transcarpathian school of painting: Yosyp Bokshai, Fedir Manaylo, Gavriil Gluck, Andriy Kotska, Anton Kashshay, Adalbert Erdeli, Volodymyr Mykyta, Vasyl Svida, Yuriy Herts; autumn November flood of 1998, saving the region; Lake Synevyr, valley of daffodils, winter mountains, dam of Tereblya-Ritskaya hydroelectric power station, castles of Uzhgorod, Nevytsky, Mukachevo, filming of Uzhgorod.

The program includes a song performed by People's Artist of Ukraine Ivan Popovych "My Transcarpathia".

History of Transcarpathia: from Carpathian Ukraine to the present

14 January 2002, Mukachevo District, Zakarpattia Region.

In the video: winter, snow, Schönborn Palace, Palanok Castle, tour participants, Mukachevo Historical Museum, road.

Zakarpattia region