TV film ‘A visit in the rain’

TV film ‘A visit in the rain’

2016, 27 min

Lutsk, May 31, 2016.

A Visit in the Rain is a TV movie about the friendship between writer Lesya Ukrainka and teacher Maria Bykovska. The film was shot in the Volyn village of Piddubtsi, where Maria Bykovska taught in 1891.

The film's participants tell about the relationship between the two comrades: Petro Oleshko, a resident of Piddubtsi village; Natalia Pushkar, the chief curator of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore; and Mykola Lafeta, a priest in Piddubtsi village.

The film uses black-and-white photographs of Lutsk in the late nineteenth century, Lesya Ukrainka, Maria Bykovska, Olena Pchilka, Klyment Kvitka, members of the Kosach family, and Volyn peasants.