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Sovist’

Conscience
Film still from SOVIST: A soldier holds a rifle on two men with a bicycle.

Wed 02.08.
20:00

  • Director

    Volodymyr Denysenko

  • USSR / 1968
    75 min. / DCP / Original version with English subtitles

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender
  • Guest (per video): Oleksandr Denysenko

The brutality of the Nazi occupation intrudes on bucolic Ukrainian village life. A young "local hero" kills a German officer; the Nazis threaten to kill the entire village. Resistance has less to do with ideology than with conscience, shows Denysenko, who grew up in occupied Ukraine and was declared an enemy of the Soviet Union after the war due to "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism." Created under the guise of a student project, SOVIST' was nevertheless censored and did not premiere until 1990. A black and white study of existentialism, taciturn to the point of silence, suspended in Krzysztof Penderecki's costume of sound. (bw)

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media