Mykola Bazhan's recitation, 1974

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1974.

Telefilm "50 Years in Poetry" with a recitation of poems by the State Prize laureate Mykola Bazhan. In the video, Mykola Bazhan talks about his creative achievements over 50 years of work, recites his own poetry.

Contains elements of Soviet propaganda.

Reference: Mykola Bazhan is a Ukrainian poet and translator, one of the most prominent modernists of the interwar period, whose early work combined futurism, expressionism and baroque imagery, and his later work — the official Soviet canon with large-scale historical and philosophical themes. The author of key poems and collections of the 20th century, a prominent master of literary translation (in particular, Shota Rustaveli, Rainer Maria Rilke), co-creator of the Ukrainian translation school. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, long-time editor-in-chief of the "Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia", laureate of the Shevchenko and Lenin Prizes, nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.