“The world knows he is Ukrainian”: a television film about Mykhailo Kravchuk

Volyn Television, 2010. TV movie “The world knows he is Ukrainian.” It tells the story of mathematician and academician Mykhailo Kravchuk.

The video shows the Kivertsi district, the village of Chovnytsia: views of the village, mathematical formulas, People's Artist of Ukraine Lyudmila Prykhodko, Honored Artist of Ukraine Adam Datsenko, a portrait of Mykhailo Kravchuk, a memorial plaque, viburnum, archival photos and videos, the premises of the Volyn State Archives, Mykhailo Kravchuk's case, mathematics textbooks, a monument to Mykhailo Kravchuk, Lutsk Gymnasium No. 21, the museum of the famous mathematician, and the school in the village of Chovnytsia. The film features poems by Mykhailo Kravchuk's friend, the poet Mykola Zerov.

Comments: Yevheniia Lukashuk, head of the museum of academician Mykhailo Kravchuk in the village of Chovnytsia; Antonina Kravchuk, head of the Volyn Regional State Archives; Lesia Svinovei-Lukashuk, researcher of Kravchuk's life; Volodymyr Piasetskyi, local historian; Maria Makh, director of the Volyn Regional Library for Youth; Volodymyr Hyka, director of the State Archives of the Volyn Region; Viktor Bozhydarnyk, rector of Lutsk National Technical University; Svitlana Bohdan, head of department at Volyn National University; Mykola Kucherepa, head of department at Volyn National University.

Screenwriter and director of the film: Maria Andrushko; editor: Sviatoslav Pirozhko; cinematographer: Valery Fetisov; assistant cinematographer: Mykola Dmytruk; editor: Oleksandr Radchuk. Text read by: Galina Startseva and Volodymyr Rosa.