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Soldier's Widows (1983)
Directed by Volodymyr Artemenko
Documentary · 19m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Volodymyr Artemenko
- Writer
- Volodymyr Artemenko, Stepan Kolesnyk
- Original Music Composer
- Ihor Polyarush
Details
- Original title
- Солдатські вдови
- Release date
- 1983-01-01
- Runtime
- 19m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- UK
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Ukrainian Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio