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"Poluden": a week in folk belief

"Poluden": a week in folk belief

1995, 44 min

Ukrainian Television, 1995. The episode of the program "Poluden" is dedicated to folk courtyards for each day of the week, and also covers the following stories:

— in the section "Grandma's Dishes" — a recipe for cabbage casserole;
— in the section "A Knot for Memory" — tips on how to wash kitchen towels and avoid bugs in flour;
— about the fate of Soviet savings and how to save in the future in independent Ukraine and the introduction of certificates;
— the properties of plants, in particular purslane and echinacea purpurea, which are told by Doctor of Biological Sciences Grigory Smyk;
— in the section "Friends at Home" — about crocodiles, turtles, frogs and other animals;
— about the origin of stress and the fight against it;
— an interview with ballet dancer Vyacheslav Medvedev;
— folk signs and their origin are told by writer, folklorist Mykola Dmytrenko.
The program ends with a video for the song "Three Roads" by Inessa Bratushchyk and Oleksa Khoma.

The following people worked on the program: journalists — Vira Boyarenko, Nadiya Drohan; directors — Larysa Pushkareva, Maryna Gagarina; assistant director — Bohdan Kamburov; cameramen — Volodymyr Targonsky, Ivan Boliliy, Oleksandr Yarmolenko; musical design by Tamila Litnovska; video engineers — Oleksandr Krasovsky, Oleksandr Tymenko, Anatoliy Kulakov.