Mountain turtle dove Olga Kobylianska

2005, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program “Mountain turtle or FEMINA MELANCHOLICA?” is dedicated to the creative and life path of Ukrainian modernist writer Olha Kobylianska.

The video features screenshots, landscapes of the Carpathians, stand-up of the journalist, Olha Kobylianska Museum in Chernivtsi, archival photos, the Olha Kobylianska Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theater, the writer's grave, fragments of the play, and fragments of films by the Dovzhenko Film Studio and Ukrtelefilm: “The Land,” “Melancholy Waltz,” “The Princess,” and “The Island of Love.”

Commentary: Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Tamara Gundorova; Director of the Museum Volodymyr Vozniuk; Director of the Theater Dmytro Zhmundulyak.

Author: Natalia Barinova.