Nazariy Yaremchuk: Afghan history

The video is a documentary that tells the story of the concert tours of VIA Smerichka and Nazariy Yaremchuk to wartime Afghanistan. In May 1987, the artists gave twenty concerts for the Soviet military in hot spots.

Interview: Vasyl Koshman, director of the Smerichka Vocal Ensemble in 1987-1988; Olena Shevchenko, Nazariy Yaremchuk's first wife; Volodymyr Prokopyk, musical director of the Smerichka Vocal Ensemble in 1985-1994; Oleh Chuyko, a reserve colonel who served in Afghanistan in 1987-1988; Daryna Yaremchuk, Nazariy Yaremchuk's wife; Dmytro Yaremchuk, Nazariy Yaremchuk's son.

The film uses fragments of personal archives and films.

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