“Female Role”: Critic’s Week presented a program and a poster with a Ukrainian Hollywood star

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The 7th International Art Cinema Festival “Kyiv Criticism Week” presented a poster and announced the Ukrainian retrospective program. Several sections will be presented, among them the Ukrainian retrospective program created in cooperation with the Dovzhenko Center. This year it is called “The Female Role” and is dedicated to legendary actresses of different eras, “This is a great opportunity to see how acting, female characters and attitudes towards them have changed over the last century. This section also allows you to look at how socio-cultural stereotypes were reflected on the big on the screen, and how the place of women on and off the screen changed with the change of eras,” comments Stanislav Bytyutky, a film expert at the Dovzhenko Center and one of the curators of the Kyiv Critic’s Week. The festival will also feature an international program with hits from major world film festivals, a thematic retrospective of cult film classics, and the “Focus” program (a selection of new films from Ukraine and another focal country, formed by a selective commission of film critics from both countries). Traditionally, the Kinocolo Award will be awarded as part of the event. The sale of festival season tickets will begin in September. Now you can view the detailed program of the “Female role” section. It covers six iconic Ukrainian films from 1928 to 1992: “Dzhalma” (1928) directed by Arnold Kordyum will return viewers to the era of silent cinema. This is one of the few films of VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photocinema Administration) in which the leading role was entrusted to a woman. 19-year-old actress Lidia Ostrovska-Kordyum played the role of a Chechen woman who, after the war in the Caucasus, ends up with her lover in his native village in Ukraine, where she encounters the hostility of the locals towards the “non-Christian soul”. A frame from the film “Dzhalma” The historical drama “Prometheus” (1935) is a free reinterpretation of the work and biography of Taras Shevchenko. In the center of the plot is the village boy Ivas. He is mobilized to the Caucasus, and his girlfriend ends up in a brothel. After his return, the young man starts a rebellion. Nataliya Uzhvii played one of the most colorful roles in the film – the hostess of the brothel. On the screen, she managed to make her debut during the period of silent cinema, played in the first sound films of the 30s, and gained worldwide fame in the 40s. Film director and sculptor Ivan Kavaleridze shot the film. Natalia Uzhvii in the picture “Prometheus” “Flower on a Stone” (1962) is a story about love in a small mining town that is being built in the Donetsk steppe. One of the roles was performed by the talented young actress Inna Burduchenko, who was predicted to have a great future in cinema. However, during filming, she died on the set, following the director’s instructions to repeat the take over and over again, where the actress was supposed to enter a house engulfed in flames. The director Anatoly Slisarenko was arrested after that, and the film was shot and edited by Serhiy Paradzhanov (“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, “The Color of a Pomegranate”). Still from the film “Flower on a Stone” Read also: Ministry of Culture lost another deputy minister – what is the reason “Evening on Ivan Kupala” (1968) – film by Yuriy Ilyenka (“White bird with a black mark”, “Prayer for Hetman Mazepa”) , inspired by the work of Mykola Gogol. The main character is a young man who makes a deal with an evil force for the sake of his love. The leading female role was played by Larisa Kadochnikova, who at that time had already become famous for her role in the film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, becoming one of the key personifications of Ukrainian cinema in the 60s. A frame from the painting “Evening on Ivan Kupala” “Forest song. Mavka” (1981) is another work of Yuri Ilyenko in this program. This is an adaptation of Lesya Ukrainka’s famous extravaganza drama. Mavka in the film was embodied by the actress Lyudmila Yefimenko, whose image became an important reinterpretation of the canonical heroine. In the 80s, she starred in two more iconic Ukrainian films – “The Legend of Princess Olga” and “Swan Lake. Zone”, thus becoming an important personification of the turning point of the decade of domestic cinema. A frame from the film “Mavka. Forest Song” “The Voice of the Grass” (1992) directed by Natalie Motuzko is a mystical drama based on the stories of Valery Shevchuk. The tape tells about a young sorceress who learns from an old sorceress. The picture will introduce viewers to two iconic actresses at the same time. One of her first roles was played here by Olga Sumska, a beginner at the time, and the role of the senior sorceress went to the outstanding Ukrainian actress Raisa Nedashkivska. It was at such a crossing of generations that a unique feminist film appeared, which, in particular, received favorable reviews at the Berlin Film Festival, where the world premiere took place. A frame from the film “The Voice of the Grass” The festival also presented this year’s poster. It depicts Anna Stan, a native of Kyiv, who was popular in the 1920s and 1930s in the Soviet Union, Europe, and the United States. She is often called the first Hollywood actress of Ukrainian origin. Anna Stan was depicted on the Critic’s Week poster. Photo: press service of the festival About the festival Kyiv Week of Critics is an international art film festival curated by Ukrainian film critics: co-founder of the Union of Film Critics of Ukraine, critic, editor Daria Badior, film expert and director, head of the scientific program department of the Dovzhenko Center Stanislav Bytyutky, columnist and author of LB.ua and DTF Magazine Serhii Ksaverov and film critic, lecturer of the course on cinema at the “Cultural Project”, curator of the cinema hall at the SWEET.TV online cinema Anna Datsyuk. In 2023, the festival will take place from October 12 to 18.

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