Ivan Drach's Author's Evening

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm".

The television film "Credo" is dedicated to the author's evening of the poet Ivan Drach. The recording date is February 16, 1990.

In the video, Ivan Drach talks about his life and recites his own poetry. The film includes a performance by a male choir from the village of Beleluya (Ivano-Frankivsk region), performing the songs "Oh, in the meadow there is a red viburnum" and "Many summers".

Comments from the guests of the evening: Yuriy Tkachuk, representative of the Ukrainian diaspora in Australia (Melbourne); singer Nina Matvienko; poet Dmytro Pavlychko.

Reference: Ivan Drach is a Ukrainian poet from the sixties, playwright and screenwriter, one of the leading figures of the cultural and political revival of the second half of the twentieth century. As the first chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine (1989–1992), he played a key role in the transformation of cultural opposition into a mass national-democratic movement at the end of the Soviet era. Drach's creative output, in particular the collections "Sunflower", "Chernobyl Madonna" and the poem "Knife in the Sun", combines modern poetic forms with acute social reflection and became a landmark phenomenon of Ukrainian literature of the 20th century.