The former serf Fedir Semerenko, the descendant of the Cossacks, together with the brothers of his wife Anastasiia became one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Tsarist Russia in what is now Cherkasy region. The Trade House “Yakhnenko and Semerenko Brothers ” was known throughout the country. His eldest son Platon kept the business of his father and created the progressive capitalist area in the country of serfs. Platon died early, and his young widow Tetiana was left alone with five little children, whom she raised by herself. Find out about the story of the rise and fall of the Semerenkos’ company in the first part, “Platon”, of the film “The Semerenkos” in the documentary series “The Game of Fate” by VIATEL Studio narrated by Natalka Sopit.
- Script by Halyna Kryvorchuk, Jurii Kryvorchuk
- Narrations Natali Sopit, Taras Denysenko
- Directed by Vasyl Viter
- Director of photography Georgij Kryvoshejenko
- Sound Oleg Golovoshkin, Kateryna Kel
- 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 L.P. Symyrenko Institute of Pomology of the Academy of Agrarian Sciences
– at the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Arts
– at the Museum of House by Mykhajlo Starytsky
We used:
– the photo documents of the National Memorial Museum of the Symyrenko Family
– the materials of the “Rodovid” (editor’s comment: The Family Tree) periodical No.10
– the H.S. Pshenychnyi Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine documents
– the fragments of films “Without a Dowry”, “Among The People”, “Childhood”, “My Universities”, “Living Corpse”, “Dubrovskyi”
Backstage
