‘The Tale of the Flaming Years’: Lviv premiere

Lviv Television Studio, 1961.

A story about the screening of the film ‘The Tale of Flaming Years’ in Lviv. On video: Lviv cinema, film posters, poster for the new wide-screen film ‘The Tale of the Flaming Years’, visitors inside the cinema, in the cinema hall, cinema mechanic at work, film fragments.

Reference: ‘The Tale of Flaming Years’ by director Yulia Solntseva is the first Soviet wide-screen feature film. The screenplay was written by Alexander Dovzhenko. The film depicts the Soviet-German war of 1941-1945 and the participation of a Ukrainian soldier in it. The film won the award for best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961.