“Chervona Ruta" in Zaporizhzhia: 1991

Chernivtsi television and the Dzvin TV channel, 1991. “Chervona Ruta” in Zaporizhzhia: preparations for the festival.

Video: Metallurg stadium, interviews with guests and contestants, fragments of performances, festival participants talking, festival hosts inviting Maria Burmaka and Oleksandr Tyshchenko to raise the flag of Ukraine, Vasyl Zhdankin singing the Ukrainian anthem, liturgy, opening of the Chervona Ruta festival, a column of people walking down the street with the festival flag and flags of Ukraine, singing Ukrainian songs.

Interview: Ostap Savchuk, stage director and artistic director of the Chernivtsi Regional Philharmonic and a delegation of contestants from Bukovyna (pop band Tandem); Roman Baranovsky, contestant from Chernivtsi; Lidia Vovkun (Zhuk), wife of the main director of the Chervona Ruta festival; Vasyl Ilashchuk, festival host; Inesa Bratuschyk; Vasyl Vovkun, main director of the Chervona Ruta festival; Alla Natalushko; Serhiy Natalushko, director; Orest Khoma; Andriy Sereda, vocalist of the band Komu Down; Maria Burmaka; Serhiy Kuzminsky, vocalist of the band Braty Gadyukiny; Lyuba Bilash; Andriy Mykolaychuk; Anatoliy Kalenychenko, deputy director of the Chervona Ruta festival; Viktor Morozov; Motria Onyshchuk and Adriana Steh; Volodymyr Tsapovsky, journalist from Zakarpattia; festival visitors.

The program was hosted by Bohdan Onufryk.