Movie |
1930s | Ukraine
Disclaimer: All content and media belong to original content streaming platforms/owners like Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Videos, JioCinema, SonyLIV etc. 91mobiles entertainment does not claim any rights to the content and only aggregate the content along with the service providers links.
Best Feature | 2015 | Maksym
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 2015 | Stanislav
Best Acting | 2014 | Stanislav
National Competition Program | 2014 | Sergei
National Competition Program | 2014 | Oles
International Competition | 2014 | Oles
Budget 722,083 USD
Box Office Collection 499,168 USD
The American boy who flees from NKVD and becomes Ivan Korcherga's guide is played by Anton Sviatoslav Greene from Ann Arbor, Michigan, whose great-grandfather Mykhailo Soroka was a political prisoner of a Soviet labor camp. His Americanized Ukrainian language was an ideal fit for the part of the son of a US engineer.
Many kobzars in the film are played by real blind people from all over Ukraine. For example, the fight scene between the blind minstrel and NKVD officers was played by Paralympics judo prize-winner Ihor Zasyadkovych. Specifically for the film, Zasyadkovych and the stunts crew restored the 'crutch'--the art of self-defense that blind minstrels used in olden times.
Oles Sanin is a kobzar himself. He got some ideas for this film while serving as a guide for a blind minstrel. At some period of his life he made his living making musical instruments.
To recreate the Soviet newsreel on the production of the first Soviet tractor, Oles Sanin used the original Parvo Debrie camera, the kind used by Dziga Vertov for his famous 'Man with a Movie Camera' (1929).
The main character was to be played by Jack Palance, who was of Ukrainian ancestry and could speak Ukrainian; unfortunately he died in 2006 at the film development stage.
