“Volodymyr Ivasyuk's Chervona Ruta": a program in memory

Chernivtsi television, 1988. The program is a memorial to Volodymyr Ivasyuk.

The program tells about the singer and composer: Vasyl Strikhovych, a television director; singers Nazariy Yaremchuk and Vasyl Zinkevych; writer Stepan Pushyk; singer and vocal teacher Olena Kuznetsova; and singers and soloists of the Smerichka VIA Sofia Rotaru and Myroslava Yehelenko.

In the video: Volodymyr Ivasiuk at home, Nazariy Yaremchuk and Vasyl Zinkevych performing “Chervona Ruta”; Volodymyr Ivasiuk playing the piano at home; Nazariy Yaremchuk singing; Volodymyr Ivasiuk's parents Mykhailo Hryhorovych and Sofia Karyakina; sisters Oksana and Halyna Ivasiuk; “Song-71” - Volodymyr Ivasiuk, Vasyl Zinkevych and Nazariy Yaremchuk performing the song “Chervona Ruta”; Nazariy Yaremchuk talks to former members of the Smerichka Vocal Ensemble; “Song-72” - Nazariy Yaremchuk and Myroslava Yezhelenko, Smerichka Vocal Ensemble perform the song “Vodohrai”; Volodymyr Ivasyu is in the audience; Rosynka ensemble performs the song “Wheat rustles like the Danube”; Vasyl Zinkevych performs the song “Summer of Late Dahlias”; photos of Sofia Rotaru and Volodymyr Ivasyuk, Rotaru performs the song “Maple Fire”.

The program includes: film footage from 1968, fragments of Song-71, Song-72, and music.