
Stepan Rudansky — author of "Singing Speeches"
1992, 28 min
State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1992.
The film "I Don't Remember the Death of the First..." is dedicated to the Ukrainian poet, satirist, author of the "singing" genre Stepan Rudasnky.
On the video: screensavers, shots of Yalta, the writer's apartment-museum in Crimea, a tombstone at the Polikuriv Memorial, celebrations on the occasion of the satirist's birthday in the village of Khomutyntsy, Vinnytsia region (competition between teams, tug-of-war, meeting guests with a hib-salt), a monument to Rudansky, a garden, a church, people dancing to Jewish music, the "Rudanska" bus stop, students reading the poet's poems, a bandura player playing and singing a song, Kamyanets-Podilskyi, St. Petersburg, an apple orchard, a celebration at the stadium, people in Cossack costumes, reading a poem by Rudansky "Ahmet III and the Cossacks" (letter to the Turkish Sultan from the Cossacks).