Edition : Ukraine 2019

TOLOKA

толока

Production: Ukraine
Production Company: Illienko Films
Premiere: Theatrical Release Ukraine – 12 March 2020 

Synopsis

Participants

There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine’s hut is on the hill…”. It is about a rescue of Catherine’s lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine’s history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine’s redemption, but also about Ukraine’s survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called TOLOKA.

CREDITS 

Director/Producer:
Mykhailo Illienko
Writers: Mykhailo Illienko, adapted from the poem by Taras Shevchenko
Editors: Viktor Malyarenko
Length: 116 min.
Colour: Colour