Literary studio. Yevhen Sverstiuk

1996, National Television Company of Ukraine. Interview with poet, literary scholar and former political prisoner Yevhen Sverstiuk. Hosted by Teodoria Zarivna.

The video features opening credits, studio footage, and a conversation about the role of artists in society, civic duty and worldview. The programme uses excerpts from the films Crucified Fates and Ukrainians: Faith, Hope, Love, as well as footage of students on hunger strike in Kyiv (Revolution on Granite, 1990).

Reference: Yevhen Sverstiuk (1928–2014) was a Ukrainian philosopher, literary scholar, writer, and one of the leading figures of the Ukrainian Sixties movement. For his active human rights activism and open criticism of the Soviet regime, he was convicted and spent years in camps and in exile. After Ukraine declared independence, he remained a moral authority, headed the newspaper Nasha Vira (Our Faith) and actively advocated for the restoration of national and spiritual values.