Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus

Yours Vasyl(uk)

Vasyl Stus dreamed of engaging in literature, not politics; to be a famous poet, not a dissident. But the Soviet special services and the CPSU pushed him to a point of no return. How did such a transformation take place? What was "Yours Vasyl" really like?

Crucified on a Black Cross(uk)

The third film of documentary trilogy «Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus» covers the events from the return from Kolyma in 1979 to the reburial on November 19, 1989. Interviews with the last cellmate of the writer Leonid Borodin, former political prisoners Vasyl Ovsienko, Levko Lukyanenko provide an opportunity to recreate the last episodes of Vasyl Stus's life: the conflict with Romashov, a fictional report about Stus's behavior in the cell, his emotional explosion due to slander, the announcement of a hunger strike, solitary confinement, night from September 3 to 4, 1985.

Come back to me, my memory(uk)

The first film of documentary trilogy «Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus» covers the events of Vasyl Stus's life from birth to the beginning of the 70s. It contains interviews with his mother Iryna Stus, comrade Vasyl Shymanskyi, Roman Korohodskyi, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Mykhailyna Kotsyubynska, Marharyta Dovhan and others, photos from the times school and institute studies, army service, postgraduate study at the Institute of Literature, fragments from letters and essays.

In the White Cold, the Sun of Ukraine(uk)

The second film of documentary trilogy «Black Candle of the Bright Road. In memory of Vasyl Stus» covers the period from the first arrest on December 12, 1972 to the death of the father in June 1978. Interviews with his son Dmytro Stus, wife Valentyna Popelyukh, comrades Oleh Orach, Yevhen Sverstyuk, Opanas Zalyvakha, Ivan Kalynychenko, Leonid Seleznenko, Semen Hluzman, Iryna Kalynets and others reveal the details of the search, imprisonment, trial on September 7, 1972, and the prisoner's life of the writer.

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