People's Artist Volodymyr Sokirk

Chernivtsi Television. The program “A Bow to Melpomene” is dedicated to the life and creative path of the People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Volodymyr Sokirko.

On the video: an excerpt from the story about the International Theater Day in Chernivtsi in 2004; guests of the program talk about Volodymyr Sokirko, discussion; fragments of films, photos of Volodymyr Sokirko.

Guests of the program: theater critic, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine Tadei Sulyatitsky; actor of the Chernivtsi Olga Kobylyanska Music and Drama Theater Taras Ridush; associate professor, candidate of philological sciences Valeria Firsanova.

Host — Vasyl Selezinka.

Reference: Volodymyr Sokirko (1892 — 1983) — Ukrainian actor, People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1946). He worked in theaters in Odessa, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Chernivtsi, performing significant roles in classical and Ukrainian works, and also acted in films. One of his best roles is Mykola Zadorozhny in “Stolen Happiness,” based on the work of Ivan Franko.