Amateur performances of the happy family of the Starytskyis and the Lysenkos always impressed the audience. But Starytskyi is also remembered in history as the founder of Ukrainian professional theater and as the first professional theatre director and playwright. Find out about the story of the thorny path towards the creation of several theater groups, traveling and touring, of betrayal of the friends and intrigues of the foes, and how painful it all was for the wife of Mykhailo Starytskyi – Sophia – in the documentary series “The Game of Fate” by VIATEL Studio narrated by Natalka Sopit.
- Script by Vasyl Viter, Kateryna Bashkina
- Narrations Natali Sopit, Taras Denysenko
- Directed by Vasyl Viter
- Director of photography Georgij Kryvoshejenko
- Sound Oleg Golovoshkin, Kateryna Kel
- Editor Oleg Tudoran
- Make up Zhanna Betrozova
- Costume LAURA ASHLEY ™
- Music Mykola Lysenko, De Wolfe Music
- Camera Oleksandr Demydenko
- Executive producer Halyna Kryvorchuk
- Producer Vasyl Viter
The shooting took place at:
– at the Museum of Hose by Myckailo Starytskyі.
We used:
– at the Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture
– the fragments of the films “Chasing The Two Hares”, “Eugene Onegin”, “Dubrovskyi, The Noble Robber”
– the phonograms of the National Radio Company of Ukraine:
the overture to the opera “Taras Bulba”; the romance “Moonlight Night” performed by Kostiantyn Ohnevyi