Ivan Kavaleridze — Titan of Ukrainian Culture

Ukrainian Studio of Television Films, 1988.

The documentary television film “At the Breaks of Time” is dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian Soviet film director, brilliant sculptor and talented playwright Ivan Kavaleridze.

Contains little-known pre-revolutionary newsreel, as well as a chronicle of the first years of Soviet power.

The film presents an extensive gallery of portraits of prominent cultural figures of the past, Kavaleridze’s photo archive, fragments of his films and sculptures, and an interview with the playwright.

Director — Rostyslav Sinko.

Reference: Ivan Kavaleridze — Ukrainian sculptor, film director and playwright, known for combining avant-garde forms with traditional themes. In his avant-garde sculpture, he experimented with cubism and constructivism, most clearly manifested in his monument “Artem” (Svyatogorsk, 1927), which became a landmark example of Soviet monumental art. Among his film works, “Perekop” (1930), “Koliivshchyna” (1933), “Prometheus” (1936), “Grygoriy Skovoroda” (1959) stand out. As a sculptor, he also created monuments to Princess Olga in Kyiv, Taras Shevchenko in Romny and Poltava, and Hrygoriy Skovoroda in Lokhvytsa, forming a unique layer of Ukrainian modernism in monumental art.