
"Recollection of the UPA". Part One
1993, 59 min
Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1993.
The first film of the "Recollection of the UPA" dilogy, entitled "A Mother Saw Off Her Son...", tells the story of the fate of families who joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the struggle against the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes.
In the film, the film crew interviews residents of cities and villages in the Volyn, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Rivne regions about their family histories and events that took place in the 1930s–1950s.
Contains fragments of a black-and-white chronicle.
Comments: Hanna Kohut (Konyukhi village), Halyna Bryk (Velyki Hai village), Sofia Bunyak, Lidiya Hrynchuk, Ulyana Lyashko, Elizaveta Bohinchuk (Hrybove village), Sabina Kozak (Probizhna village), Pavlyna Gulka (Dolyna village), Emilia Syngalevich, Paraskoviya Sushnyk (Zalisty village), Evdokia Kekish (Ternopil city), Maria Zobolotna (Chortkiv city), Fedir Burets (Rogozino village), Pavlo Pekarsky (Demydivka village), Semen Chisnok (Mlyniv city).
The authors of the film are Myroslav Dzhindzhiristy and Leonid Muzhuk.