History of the People's Movement of Ukraine

2009, National Television Company of Ukraine. The programme ‘Faces of Freedom’ is dedicated to the history of the political party ‘People's Movement of Ukraine’.

In the video: opening credits, archival video materials: Oles Honchar's speech at the Constituent Conference of the Ukrainian Language Society in Kyiv, the writers' congress in 1987, the building of the Writers' Union of Ukraine, the writers' creative centre in Irpin, the house of Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky, rallies with the participation of the Movement, the meeting of the first Kyiv organisation of the Movement, the first congress of the organisation, the Living Chain of Unity, a speech by Vyacheslav Chornovil, the monument to Chornovil.

The following people talk about the creation and activities of RUKH: Ukrainian literary critic Vitaliy Donchik; public figure, politician, journalist, poet Pavlo Movchan; Ukrainian writer, public and political figure Volodymyr Yavorivsky; poet, Hero of Ukraine Ivan Drach; Ukrainian writer, Hero of Ukraine Yuriy Mushketik; Ukrainian literary scholar, Hero of Ukraine Vyacheslav Bryukhovetskyi.

Author: Teodoria Zarivna.