Mykhailo Starytskyi was a man of many talents: he could sing, and draw, and play piano; he was also a talented actor, writer, and playwright. And his life companion was his only love – Sophia Lysenko, the woman he married when she was only 14. Find out about the story of the first steps on the creative path he made together with his wife’s brother, composer Mykola Lysenko, in the first part of the film “My heart is pierced with knives” 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