After breaking up with Osyp Makovei, Olha Kobylianska remained active in literature in spite of the serious psychological trauma, because now that was her only sense of life. But those were hard times for the writer: she had problems with health and lost close people. Then, the First World War began. Kobylianska lived all her life in Chernivtsi city that was a part of different countries and empires. But all her life she loved her native land. And all her life she loved only one man. Find out about the story of the last years of life of Olha Kobylianska, her unwritten story “Valse Brillante”, and the faithfulness of her love – in the documentary series “The Game of Fate” by VIATEL Studio narrated by Natalka Sopit.
- Script by Vasyl Viter, Halyna Kryvorchuk, Natali Sopit
- Narrations Natali Sopit, Taras Denysenko
- Directed by Vasyl Viter
- Director of photography Georgij Kryvoshejenko
- Sound Oleg Golovoshkin
- Editor Arsenii Bortnyk
- Make up Janina Berezutska
- Costume LAURA ASHLEY ™
- Music De Wolfe Music
- Camera Oleksandr Demydenko
- Executive producer Halyna Kryvorchuk
- Producer Vasyl Viter
The shooting took place at:
– at the Olha Kobylianska Literary and Memorial Museum in Chernivtsi
– at the Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture
– at the Olha Kobylianska Memorial Estate in Dymka village
– at the Hotel and Restaurant Complex “Under The Lime Trees”
We used:
– the archives of Olha Kobylianska of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
-the H.S. Pshenychnyi Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine documents
– the fragments of the films:
“The Stone Cross” of the Dovzhenko Film Studio directed by Leonid Osyka;
“A Melancholic Waltz” directed by Borys Savchenko;
“The Nature” of the Ukrtelefilm Studio directed by Oleh Biima;
“The Princess” directed by Serhiyi Turianytsia
– the illustrations to the novel “The Earth” by Serhii Adamovych, Vasyl Kasiian