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Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus (1992)

Documentary trilogy about the thorny path of the famous Ukrainian poet, translator, political prisoner Vasyl Stus. Filmed in 1989-1992, it describes the life of the poet, the story of the destruction of the dissident by the Soviet authorities, highlights his influence on Ukrainian society during life and after his death, records the testimony of witnesses, films the liquidated Kuchino camp, in which Stus was imprisoned, the reburial of Stus, Lytvyn and Tykhy in 1989. Consists of three parts: «Come back to me, my memory» (Верни до мене, пам’яте моя), «In the white cold the sun of Ukraine» (У білій стужі сонце України), «Crucified on a black cross» (Розіп’ятий на чорному хресті).

Release: 1992-01-06
Runtime: 152 min
Cast
Oleksandr Kochnev
Oleksandr Kochnev
(voice)
Dmytro Stus
Dmytro Stus
Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Stus
(voice)
Nina Matviienko
Nina Matviienko
(sing)
Vitaliy Doroshenko
Vitaliy Doroshenko
(voice)
Leonid Yanovskyi
Leonid Yanovskyi
(voice)
Alla Usenko
Alla Usenko
(voice)
Halyna Demchuk
Halyna Demchuk
(voice)
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Agafya Bolotova
(voice)
Aleksandr Movchan
Aleksandr Movchan
(voice)
Anatolii Yurchenko
Anatolii Yurchenko
(voice)
Bohdan Beniuk
Bohdan Beniuk
(voice)
Vasyl Mazur
Vasyl Mazur
(voice)
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Yuriy Kritenko
(voice)
Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko
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