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A picture to remember Real Pictures in coproduction with Lufilms, Tama Filmproduktion ; a film by Olga Chernykh ; writer and director, Olga Chernykh ; producers, Regina Maryanovska Davidzon, Oleksiy Gladushevskyy, Laurence Uebersfeld, Olivier Amiel, Flavia Oertwig
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Ukrainian
- Subjects (All):
- Chernykh, Olga.
- Dyadyk, Olena.
- Memory.
- Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022.
- Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-.
- Genre:
- Biographical films
- Documentary films
- Feature films
- Nonfiction films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (72 min., 25 sec.)) sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] Grasshopper Film [2023]
- Language Note:
- In Ukrainian, with English subtitles
- System Details:
- sound
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- Originally from Donetsk - an industrial city in eastern Ukraine - the Chernykh family was uprooted in 2014 when the Russian war against Ukraine first commenced. By 2022, the same enemy once again began knocking on the door of their new home - now in Kyiv - and once again destroyed everything that the family had worked so hard to rebuild. Thrown into the limbo of exile, the director (also the narrator of the film) dives into a kaleidoscope of memories and chronicles both her personal and collective familial search for something to hold on to amid these turbulent times. The voice of the author leads the viewers through decades of family archives as well as the events of the last 8 years of the war. Set against the backdrop of the director's life, we meet her mother, Olena - the head of the pathology department in Kyiv - someone who deals with death on a daily basis. For more than twenty years she has fought her private war within herself - against her own rare and incurable disease. Observing her mother's work and rethinking the events of the past, the narrator finds a way to overcome her pain with the help of memory. Memory - which she sees as a treasure of the sort that cannot be destroyed or taken away - provides her with the strength to move forward. The grandmother remains trapped back in the occupied and besieged city of Donetsk and so provides an unbroken family link to the city and to their regional and historical patrimony
- Participant:
- Zoryna Dyadyk, Olena Dyadyk, Oleg Chernykh, Stanislav Chernykh, Svetlana Chernykh
- Credits:
- Editor, Kasia Boniecka ; director of photography, Olga Chernykh ; composer, Maryana Klochko
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title and statement of responsibility from title screen and end credits (viewed 2024 October 9)
- OCLC:
- 1464815157
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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