Aleksandr DOVZHENKO
Александр ДОВЖЕНКО
Aleksandr DOVJENKO
Yulia SOLNTSEVA
Юлия СОЛНЦЕВА
Youlia SOLNTSEVA
USSR (Ukraine), 1940, 61mn 
Black and white, documentary
Ozvobozhdenie
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Освобождение

 

 La Libération

 Ozvobozhdenie

 
Directed by : Aleksandr DOVZHENKO (Александр ДОВЖЕНКО), Yulia SOLNTSEVA (Юлия СОЛНЦЕВА)
Writing credits : Aleksandr DOVZHENKO (Александр ДОВЖЕНКО)
Cinematography : Grigori_2 ALEXANDROV (Григорий_2 АЛЕКСАНДРОВ), Mikola BYKOV (Микола БЫКОВ), Yuri EKELCHIK (Юрий ЕКЕЛЬЧИК), Yuri TAMARSKY (Юрий ТАМАРСКИЙ)
Production design : Moritz UMANSKY (Мориц УМАНСКИЙ)
Music : Boris LATOSHINSKY (Борис ЛАТОШИНСКИЙ)
Sound : Aleksandr BABY (Александр БАБИЙ)
Production : Studio Dovzhenko
 

Plot synopsis
September 1939. Soviet troops annex the territory of Galicia, which has since become Polish. Among them, the director takes his operators to the foothills of the Carpathians. Meetings take place everywhere. The one in Lviv seals the reunion of the two separated peoples.
 

Commentaries
La guerre dans le cinéma soviétique, Éric AUNOBLE, ehne.fr, 2021
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Zoom arrière. Cinémathèque de Toulouse, Toulouse (France), 2015
- Festival of Archive Films, Belye Stolby (Russia), 2009

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