The Rivals

2007
Kyiv, Kropyvnytsky (Elysavethrad)
Duration 13′ 45″

Movie preview

The name of Heinrich Neuhaus was mostly known in musical circles. A German born in Ukraine, in the beginning of the ХХ century he was the teacher for several generations of pianists and was himself a famous performer. But in his family life, he suffered defeat by his friend and no less famous cultural figure – writer Borys Pasternak. Find out about how two friends-rivals, Neuhaus and Pasternak, loved the same woman – beautiful Zinaiida Yeremeieva-Giotti – in the documentary series “The Game of Fate” by VIATEL Studio narrated by Natalka Sopit.

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

The shooting took place at:

– at the Petro Tchaikovskyi National Music Academy of Ukraine
– at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine

We used:

the fragments from the film by Dzyha Vertov
“A Man with a Camera”

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