… Kyiv Frescoes Following the success of Parajanov’s widely celebrated Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors , Kyiv Frescoes was originally conceived as part of an industry-wide effort to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Germany in World War II. Working with cinematographer Oleksandr Antypenko and …

… publicist, and a "symbol of Ukrainian sixtiers." Lina Kostenko recalls him as a person who always had the courage to speak the truth. As the initiator of the famous protest against the mass arrests of Ukrainian intellectuals during the premiere of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Serhiy Parajanov, alongside Vasyl Stus and Vyacheslav Chornovil, and as the author of the landmark book Internationalism or Russification? , he inevitably drew close attention from the KGB.  Through all the anxieties and …

… Mountain meadows, the sounds of trembita, the Hutsul lifestyle and the Transcarpathian dialect — Takflix invites you to travel the Carpathians through the movies. The collection opens up with a favourite film classic - Serghiy Paradzhanov's film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, which introduced the “Carpathian phenomenon” on the screen. Olena Dem'yanenko's incendiary musical “Hutsulka Xenya” with the participation of the cabaret “Dakh Daughters” depicts the Carpathians of 1939 - a moment before …

… tended to focus on Ukrainian identity and folklore, and could be described as "folk modernism". The "peasant lyricism" of Soviet Montage director and Ukrainian native Olexander Dovzhenko is seen as an integral influence on the movement. Films such as  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors  (1965) heavily broke the then-official Soviet policy of Socialist Realism and instead employed extravagant visual styles, together with experimental techniques and narratives. As a result, films of the movement were …

… Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Little Hutsul Ivanko Paliychuk witnesses the death of his father in a fight with a man from …