A Well for the Thirsty

Yurii Illienko

Ukraine (USSR)

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1987

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73’

A cinematic parable about old Levko Serdiuk, who lives in a post-war village and tends to the communal well. Yet, his dedication goes unappreciated. However, an unexpected visit from his family prompts him to symbolically rise from his coffin. Against the backdrop of this intimate drama, the village itself is transforming as modernity ruthlessly intrudes upon the traditional way of life, bringing electric poles, an iron windmill, and airplanes in the sky.

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колірність

Black&White

форма

Fiction

Screenings

режисер_ка

Yurii Illienko

Yurii Illienko (1936–2010) was a Ukrainian film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter, awarded the title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1987). In 1960, he graduated from the cinematography faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). He worked at the Dovzhenko Film Studios and taught as a professor at the Kyiv Karpenko-Karyi Institute of Theatre Arts. He was the cinematographer for SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (1965) and the director of WHITE BIRD WITH BLACK MARK (1972) and SWAN LAKE: THE ZONE (1990). Illienko was a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1991) and received the Honorary Award of the President of Ukraine (1996).

Фільмографія

«Молитва за гетьмана Мазепу» (2001); «Легенда про княгиню Ольгу» (1982); «Вечір напередодні Івана Купала» (1969)

Творча команда

Режисер_ка

Yurii Illienko

сценарій

Ivan Drach

камера

Yurii Illienko, Volodymyr Davydov

монтаж

Продюсер

Музика

Leonid Hrabovskyi

У ролях

Dmytro Miliutenko, Larysa Kadochnykova, Feodosiia Lytvynenko

Художник_ця

Petro Maksymenko, Anatolii Mamontov

Виробництво

Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Studio of Feature Films