"Cathedral" by Oles Honchar: the history of writing

2008, National Television Company of Ukraine. The documentary film "Oles Honchar. Cathedral" is dedicated to the history of writing the novel and the real reasons for the persecution of the writer.

In the video: screensavers, a monument to Oles Honchar in Kyiv, the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the city of Samar (the prototype of the cathedral in the novel), the village of Lomivka (the writer's birthplace), the family home, footage of the city of Samar, the writer's office, letters and documents, newsreel with Honchar, footage of the city of Irpin, the house of creativity, pages of the novel with remarks in the margins, Koncha-Ozerna, the family home, the author's books, St. Michael's Cathedral.

The following talk about the writer: his wife Valentyna Honchar (about the novel "Cathedral", the history of its creation, about her help in writing, about incidents from life); sister Oleksandra Bilichenko-Sova (about O. Honchar's arrival home in 1935, about the Bible from Kharkov); writer Lesya Stepovich (about Honchar's sister); writer Maria Vlad (about the meeting with O. Honchar in Kosovo, about the letter from the parburo with an instruction to condemn the book, about acquaintance with the writer since school years); writer Viktor Baranov (about his impressions of the novel); writer Anatoliy Dimarov (about the stunned impression of "Sobor" in the writer's and public life, about O. Honchar's resilience in the face of pressure from the Communist Party, about the prototype of a negative hero); poet Ivan Drach (about an incident in O. Honchar's life when his receiver was stolen); critic Oleksandr Yarovy (about the fact that O. Honchar's ideas helped a person survive and live).