Come back to me, my memory (1992)
Overview
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.
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Directed By
Stanislav Chernilevskyi
Crew
Stanislav Chernilevskyi
Bohdan Pidhirnyi
Dmytro Stus
Stanislav Chernilevskyi
Volodymyr Shovkoshytnyi
Natalia Akayomova
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