"Kolo Dzygi" Silent Film Collection. Mykola Shpykovskyi. KhLIB. (DVD). (Bread) // www.UMKA.com.ua

"An unknown Ukrainian film avant-garde masterpiece, this agitprop film, created in 1929, was banned and long forgotten: the first mentions of "Bread" appeared only in the 1970's. The movie's epic language is especially laconic, while scenes of everyday life acquire a symbolic meaning. The special charm of the film comes from the unsurpassed camera work and innovative editing, which integrates the intertitles into semantics of the screen images – clear, ascetic, expressive and remarkably suggestive. The soundtrack is created by Belarusian instrumental trio "Port Mone", whose meditative music ideally fits the epic "Bread".

The release includes a 24-page booklet which contains more in-depth and detailed information about the film and its creators (in Ukrainian).

Director: Mykola Shpykovsky
Written by Volodymyr Yaroshenko
Cinematography by Olexiy Pankratiev
Design by Solomon Zarytsky
Cast Luka Lyashenko, Sofia Smyrnova, Fedir Hamaliy, Dmytro Kapka
Soundtrack: Port Mone

Pay attention as well to the box set "Olexander Dovzhenko. Trilogy" – a collection of restored films Zvenyhora, Arsenal, and Earth with modern soundtracks.

DZYGA’S CIRCLE – a collection of the best Ukrainian silent films – masterpieces of the world film classics restored in 2011-2012. Modern Ukrainian, Polish, German, British (and other) musicians working in the genres of electronic, jazz, and experimental music have created new soundtracks for the films. DZYGA’S CIRCLE is a dvd-collection of rare movies capable of radically changing the established perception of the Ukrainian cinema.

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Subtitles: English
Video format: PAL – 6:4
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
DVD Region: ALL

Lisova pisnya. Ukrainian Classics. (DVD). (Forest Song)

The film was created based on the same-name spectacular drama by Lesya Ukrainka. A beautiful, tragic forest fairy-tale about a forest princess falling in love with a simple peasant. The magic of the forest failed to distract the man of land from his routine concerns, and the love perished...

Domestic price: 208.60UAH, International price: $14.90USD