
"Glorious Cossack Life": The Folk Image of a Cossack
2002, 8 min
National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2002.
The program "Glorious Cossack Life" for the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks is dedicated to the traditions and folk image of the Cossacks.
On the video: monuments of the Cossack period, weapons, documents; historical background, tradition of visual depiction of the Cossacks; Yuriy Mushketyk talks about the inherent image and character of a Cossack; playing the bandura, folk songs; military-historical reconstruction of the Cossack period.
Writer Yuriy Mushketyk comments.
The program includes fragments from the films: "Cossack - a True Soul", "Oh, Woe to That Seagull", "There is No Translation for the Cossack Family", "Cossack Times", "Passions Around Symbolism", "Unknown Ukraine", "Cossack Journeys", "Who Are We?".