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Toloka (2020)

Directed by Mykhailo Illienko

Overview

There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine’s hut is on the hill…”. It is about a rescue of Catherine’s lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine’s history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home.  But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine’s redemption, but also about Ukraine’s survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.

Length 110 minutes

Actors

Ivanna Illienko | Dmytro Linartovych | Bogdan Benyuk | Serhiy Romaniuk | Dmytro Rybalevskyi | Oleg Primogenov | Vasiliy Kukharskiy | Myroslav Hai | Kostiantyn Koretskyi | Aleksandr Ignatusha