Documentary film "Yaroslav Galan", 1977

1977, Lviv Television. The documentary film “Yaroslav Halan” is dedicated to the Ukrainian Soviet propagandist, writer, and Sovietophile. The film consists of three parts: “Halan's Violin,” “Courage,” and “Until the Last Minute.” Language: Russian. Propaganda is present.

In the video: opening credits, writer Roman Fedoriv talks about Yaroslav Galan, footage of cities: Dnipro, Przemyśl, Krakow, Lviv, Saratov, Rome, villages of Trostyanets, Bereziv Nyzhniy, and the town of Koktebel. Archival documents, photographs of Galan and other writers, covers of books and magazines, footage from the 1920s, the arrival of Soviet troops in Western Ukraine in September 1939, the German occupation, and the pseudo-council of 1946 are used.

Reference: Yaroslav Galan was a Ukrainian Soviet writer and publicist known for his sharp anti-clerical and anti-nationalist stance. He worked in the genre of pamphlets and political journalism and actively supported Soviet power in Western Ukraine. In 1949, he was killed in Lviv.