"Greetings to you, Ukrainian people": the return of the head of the UGCC, Myroslav Lyubachivsky

The documentary film "Greetings to you, Ukrainian people" tells the story of the return to Ukraine of the head of the UGCC, His Beatitude Patriarch Cardinal Myroslav Lyubachivsky, as well as the history of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Ukrainians in the 20th century.

On video: premiere of a documentary television film; Their Beatitude Myroslav Ivan Cardinal Lyubachivsky returns from a temporary center in Rome to his throne in Lviv; speech by Myroslav Lyubachivsky; arrival of Myroslav Lyubachivsky; believers near the Archcathedral of St. George; archival footage of the destruction of churches; archival footage of Lviv; archival footage of World War II; footage from the Council on the Abolition of the Brest Union; Myroslav Lyubachivsky washes and kisses the feet of the bishops; fragment of the Easter service; archival footage of the dismantling of the monument to V. Lenin; story about the torture of the NKVD in the torture chamber in Drohobych; footage from Lviv during the perestroika period; Church of St. Anne of the UGCC; existing technical defect; Metropolitan Myroslav Lobachivsky distributes icons to children; ceremonial meal; video footage of the Supreme Archbishop of the UGCC, Joseph Slipy; groves.

Commenting: Chancellor of the Lviv Archdiocese of the UGCC, Father Dr. Ivan Datsko; Sister Sofia Senyk; American lawyer and historian of Ukrainian origin Andriy Sorokovsky; Father Herman Budzinsky; Father Petro Zelenyukh; Archbishop Volodymyr Sternyuk; Archimandrite Lubomyr Huzar; Father Yaroslav Chukhniy; Vyacheslav Chornovil; Ukrainian politician, dissident of the perestroika period Stepan Khmara; Ukrainian politician, dissident, religious figure Ivan Gel; physician Myron Buchatsky; Mayor of Lviv (1990–1994) Vasyl Shpitser; Anna Moroz; Volodymyr Yatsenko.

The film was directed by: cameraman Mario Ferreira, Claudio Gondi (second part); voice-over by Alexis Ward, Jean-Jacques Ferri (second part); research by Andriy Sorokovsky; editing by Volodymyr Lozinsky; producers and directors John Arden and Volodymyr Lozinsky.