After the early death of his wife Oleksandra, Marko Kropyvnytskyi plunged into his work in theater. He often acted on the stage, wrote plays, created theater groups. His life was entirely dedicated to theater. But he was lonely in his personal life. For a long time, Marko Lukych could not find a soul mate, and he was absorbed in theater again. Find out about the story of the personal life of the founder of professional Ukrainian theater – 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 Olga Bondarenko
- Costume LAURA ASHLEY ™
- Music De Wolfe Music
- Camera Oleksandr Demydenko
- Executive producer Halyna Kryvorchuk
- Producer Vasyl Viter
The shooting took place at:
– at the M.L. Kropyvnytskyi Memorial Museum in Kropyvnytskyi town
– at the State Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine
– at the Kropyvnytskyi Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater in Kropyvnytskyi town
We used:
– the private archive of Ihor Kropyvnytskyi, the grandson of Mark Lukych Kropyvnytskyi
– the H.S. Pshenychnyi Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine documents
– the fragments of films “The Talented Admirer”, “Guilty without Guilt”



