Soldier's Widows

1983 19 min

Overview

In 1983, the documentary film "Soldier's Widows" was released on the screens of Ukraine, created by director Volodymyr Artemenko, whose father died at the front, and nine aunts remained widows. Based on real events, the picture about one small village of Melnyky in Cherkasy region, where a large number of widows lived, made a strong impression, because there were many such villages in Ukraine. At the Berlin Film Festival, one of the foreign film critics called Ukrainian widows the Madonnas of the 20th century.

Genres

Documentary

Production Countries

Soviet Union

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Cast

Crew

Oleksandr Verteletskyi

Cinematography

Volodymyr Artemenko

Director

Volodymyr Artemenko

Writer

Stepan Kolesnyk

Writer

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