Yevhen Stankovych: "The Fern Flower"

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1989.

The film "The Fern Flower" is dedicated to the State Honored Academic Folk Choir named after Heorhiy Veryovka and the creation of the folk opera "When the Fern Blooms" by Yevhen Stankovych.

On the video: preparation of vocalists for the performance, folk costumes; choir rehearsal, fragments of rehearsals; performance of the State Honored Academic Folk Choir named after Heorhiy Veryovka.

The film starred Anatoly Avdievsky, Nina Matvienko, Volodymyr Boyko, Valentina Kovalska, Lyudmila Klymenko, Yevhen Stankovych, as well as artists of the Ukrainian Folk Choir named after Heorhiy Veryovka, the folklore ensemble "Troyan" (village of Lyukhcha, Rivne region).

The film is dubbed in russian languages.

Reference: The Heorhiy Veryovka Choir was founded in 1943 during World War II in Kharkiv; the founder and first leader of the group was the composer and choral conductor Heorhiy Veryovka. The first soloists of the choir were formed from members of front-line ensembles, and the modern structure of the group includes choral, dance and orchestral groups.

Yevhen Stankovych is a Ukrainian composer, one of the leading representatives of modern Ukrainian academic music, author of symphonic, opera and ballet works, professor at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine. His folk opera "When the Fern Blooms" (1978) gained wide popularity, combining elements of Ukrainian folklore, choral and symphonic music and becoming one of the most famous works of Ukrainian musical culture of the second half of the 20th century.