"The Figurehead" is a real story with real prototypes. In the plot, you can recognize the artistic bohemians of that time: director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, director of Odesa and Kyiv film factories Pavlo Neches, artist, architect, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Vasyl Krychevskyi. This is the story of creativity, love, the stormy era of the emergence of cinema, and life in Odessa at the beginning of the last century.
The story "Baihorod" has a completely different atmosphere, although it has the same level of cinematography. Anarchists are approaching the city of Baihorod with battles, while the citizens of Baihorod are preparing to defend their city and fight them back. Love in the background of war, the feeling that you have to live now, combined with being rooted in the land you live on and protecting what you believe in, even at the cost of life.
About the series "Non-canon canon"
Thinking about the canon of Ukrainian literature, only a few names from the school curriculum come to mind: Shevchenko, Franko, and Nechuy-Levytskyi. Although in reality, this list is much more extensive and more diverse.
Before you are the series "Non-canon canon", with the help of which we want to talk about all those we did not know, whose texts we read without understanding the context of the reality of the time. Before you are a series designed to rediscover familiar strangers. You will find a range of Ukrainian authors and their works - from Pidmohylnyi and Barhianyi to Khvylovyi and Johansen, from an elegant intellectual novel to a dynamic adventure, from innovative urban prose to psychological texts.
Keys accompany each text for reading from Ukrainian literary experts. They will tell you what to pay attention to and help you look at the texts of Ukrainian classics in a new way.
