"Ukrainian Herald": Vyacheslav Chornovil

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2012.

The documentary film is dedicated to the Ukrainian politician Vyacheslav Chornovil and his uncensored socio-political magazine "Ukrainian Herald".

On the video: the edition of "Ukrainian Herald", various shots; Soviet black-and-white chronicles, Kyiv; the cinema "Ukraine", fragments of the film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"; an excerpt from a speech by Vyacheslav Chornovil in 1991; a monument to Vyacheslav Chornovil in Lviv.

Comments: People's Deputy of Ukraine, dissident, Yaroslav Kendzior; poet, political prisoner, Ihor Kalynets; dissident, Vyacheslav's sister, Valentyna Chornovil.

Author and director — Mark Gres.

Reference: Vyacheslav Chornovil is a Ukrainian politician, publicist, dissident and political prisoner of the USSR. Founder of the underground magazine "Ukrainian Herald", member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, initiator of the creation of the People's Movement of Ukraine, its long-term chairman. He was a presidential candidate in the 1991 elections, was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine three times. He died in a car accident in 1999.