100th Anniversary of the Koryphey Theater of Kropynytsky

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1982.

The film "Theatre of Hope" is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian professional theater created by Mark Kropyvnytsky — the Koryphey Theater.

On the video: a story about the Koryphey Theater, a tour of the museum; theater artists and actors give comments on the history of the development of Ukrainian theater. The film uses materials from the State Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of the Ukrainian SSR (now the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine in Kyiv).

Comments: People's Artist of the USSR Olga Kusenko; Ukrainian Soviet actors Valery Ivchenko, Iryna Dzyuba, Fedor Stryhun.

The film is dubbed in russian languages.

Reference: The Koryphey Theater is the first professional Ukrainian theater, founded in 1882 in Yelysavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi) by Mark Kropyvnytskyi, who formed a national stage tradition under imperial restrictions. Its leading figures included Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Mykola Sadovskyi, Panas Saksaganskyi, Maria Zankovetska and the Tobilevichi brothers, and the style of the theater combined drama, music and folk elements.