The Amulets programme: a conversation with Volodymyr Danyleiko
2010, 24 min
The program "Amulets": a conversation with Volodymyr Danyleiko, an ethnographer, cultural critic, and friend of Vasyl Symonenko, in the program "Amulets".
Volodymyr Danyleiko was born on August 9, 1930, in the village of Demina Balka, Poltava region. He studied at the Kharkiv University, Faculty of Philology, and later at the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv.
Founder of the Orta ethnographic group, initiator of the Lviv Municipal Men's Choir "Homin". He is known for introducing Ukrainian traditional customs and rituals, organizing caroling in Kyiv, Lviv, and Poltava.
The video includes fragments of archival videos of Alla Markaryan, Serhiy Zhmurenko, as well as fragments from the films Leopold or Escape from Freedom, Picturesque Ukraine, Boim Chapel, Sofiyivka. Love-Sophia", "In Search of Happiness", "Cultural Heritage", and fragments from songs: "Silence around," "Protection of the Mother of God to the faithful," "Oh, the fog is thick," "Drink, brothers, drink," performed by the Marenychi trio, the Gulyaihorod and the Kozatska Chorea bands, and the song "I've met somebody. I've not seen for ages".