Road. Vasyl Stefanyk, part 3

2014
Rusiv, Lviv, Chernivci, Kolomya, Krakow
Duration 14′ 30″

Movie preview

The first short stories of Vasyl Stefanyk made him famous. His characters lived around him. He took hard their tragic fates. He especially worried about the Ukrainian emigrants he saw at Kraków railway station. He wrote about them in the letters to his friend, writer Olha Kobylianska. But fate prepared another test for Stefanyk. Find out the story of unexpected and dramatic love of Vasyl Stefanyk to married woman Yevheniia Kalytovska – in the documentary series “The Game of Fate” by VIATEL Studio narrated by Natalka Sopit.

  • Script by Halyna Kryvorchuk
  • Narrations Natali Sopit, Taras Denysenko
  • Directed by Vasyl Viter
  • Director of photography Georgij Kryvoshejenko
  • Sound Oleg Golovoshkin
  • Editor Arsenii Bortnyk
  • Make up Kateryna Vodjana
  • Costume LAURA  ASHLEY
  • Music De Wolfe Music
  • Camera Oleksandr Demydenko
  • Executive producer Halyna Kryvorchuk
  • Producer Vasyl Viter

The shooting took place at:

– at the Vasyl Stefanyk Literary and Memorial Museum in Rusiv
– at the private house of the Stefanyk family in Rusiv
– at the Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture
– at the Olha Kobylianska Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater
– at the Hotel and Restaurant Complex “Under The Lime Trees”

We used:

– the materials of the Vasyl Stefanyk Literary and Memorial Museum in Rusiv
– the H.S. Pshenychnyi Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine documents
– the fragments of the films:
“The Stone Cross”  directed by Leonid Osyka
“A Melancholic Waltz” directed by Borys Savchenko
“The Island of Love” directed by Oleh Biima

Special thanks to the family of Vasyl Stefanyk for the help in the production of this film.
The film is created in association with the Bukovyna Community in Kyiv .

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