Ivan Tobilevych – Karpenko-Karyi – met his future wife Nadiia Tarkovska due to the theater. He offered her the part of Halia in the play “Nazar Stodolia” by Taras Shevchenko , performed by the amateur theater. And she agreed. Find out about how similar was the fate of Shevchenko’s characters to the fate of Ivan and Nadiika, how they married against the will of her parents in the first part of the film “Ivan Karpenko-Karyi. Tobilevych” in the documentary series “The Game of Fate” by VIATEL Studio narrated by Natalka Sopit.
- Script by Julia Orlenko,Vasyl Viter
- Narrations Natali Sopit, Taras Denysenko
- Directed by Vasyl Viter
- 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:
– in the “Nadiia” estate
We used:
– the H.S. Pshenychnyi Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine documents
– the State Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine materials
– the fragments of the films “And Sounds will Carry on the Memory”, “My Universities”, “Anna Karenina”


