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Fragment of the Book (PDF) Authors Film crew of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Screenwriters - Ivan Chendey, Starring: Serhiy Parajanov Ivan Mykolaichuk (Ivan Paliychuk), Director - Serhiy Parajanov Larysa Kadochnykova (Marichka Hutenyukova), Cinematographer - Yuriy Illienko Tetyana Bestayeva (Palagna), Art directors - Heorhiy Yakutovych, Spartak Bagashvili (Yura Molfar), Mykhailo Rakovsky Nina Alisova (Ivan’s mother), Set designer - Petro Maksymenko Oleksandr Hay (Petro Paliychuk, Ivan’s father), Composer - Myroslav Skoryk Neonila Hnepovska (Paraska Costume designer - Lidiia Baikova Hutenyukova, Marichka’s mother) Makeup creator - Volodymyr Shykin Oleksandr Raydanov (Onufriy Sound engineer - Sofiya Serhiyenko Hutenyuk, Marichka’s father), Director - Volodymyr Lugovsky Mykola Hrynko (Shepherd), Assistant camera - Volodymyr Davydov Leonid Yenhibarov (Miko), Film editor - Marfa Ponomarenko Ihor Dzyura (Ivan in childhood), Assistant director - Mykola Horokhovsky Valentyna Hlynko (Marichka in childhood) Second assistant camera - Feliks Hutsuls of Ukrainian Carpathians Rzheshutek, Viktor Shuvalov Assistant director - Lyudmyla Kustova Photographs from the shooting 1963 Consultant - Fedir Manaylo First row from left to right: Ivan Hnatyuk, Vasyl Demydyuk, Kateryna Demydyuk, Maria Ilyichuk, Heorhiy Yakutovych, Lyudmyla Kustova Second row from left to right: Mykola Slyvchuk, Lidiia Baikova, Petro Soryuk, Spartak Bagashvili, Yevdokia Soryuk, Serhiy Parajanov Editor - Oleksandr Syzonenko Dmytro Kharuk, Hanna Laskuriychuk Serhiy Yakutovych archive (Kyiv) Manager - Nona Yuryeva Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Symphonic Orchestra Conductor - Stefan Turchak Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors phenomenon provides an illustrative view on the meeting can be regarded as a major event merely because when he was a child visiting the Carpathians of the meeting of two individuals with opposing with his father. Yakutovych saw a film crew in characters and professions, yet who played an the backyard of the Hutsul hut, assembling near important role in Ukrainian history. Most of a musician. He was singing “When the people these people became prominent for the first were giants / They became mountains.” The during the filming. The filming site became a crew were giants in the eyes of a child, even Oleksandr Dovzhenko film studio (Kyiv), “creative lab” – its products had unpredictable though most of them were in their twenties. The 1964, 10 part, 2660 m, 98 minutes, colored and long fate. It nurtured the school of poetic youngest was Ivan Mykolaichuk, 23, and the Premiered on September 4, 1965 film, influenced nonfigurative art and classical forty-years-old Serhiy Parajanov was the oldest. in Ukraina Cinema in Kyiv music. Serhiy Yakutovych, the graphic designer, His colleagues usually said, “Here’s an old guy”. 40 41 Duel Illustrated by Yulia Tveritina A duel that occurred between Serhiy Parajanov thoroughness. According to Ivan Drach, and Yuriy Illienko is in some cases perceived as “... there is a lot of imagination in his version. a real event or – in others – as fiction, depending In my opinion, no one talked about this duel on the storyteller. Illienko himself left the seriously, except Illienko. If we imagine the largest summary of the incident of 1963 in his Carpathians of that time, it becomes clear that the memoirs Yuriy Illienko’s report to Saint Peter. possibility of a duel and shooting is a legend.’’ It is evident that the duel is the beginning of In addition, Larysa Kadochnykova who, according the biography, «I replied with swearing. But, it to Illienko’s memoirs, was holding the operator’s is not important. What the main thing was the hand during his argument with Parajanov that following: “Tomorrow at 6 a.m. you will die. <...> turned into a promise of murder – also stands We will shoot each other from 6 steps distance”. against Illienko. Kadochnykova could not He realized, I wasn’t kidding” [Illienko]. The definitively say whether the promise and the duel differences in the artistic approach caused the actually took place: “Nobody told me a single dispute. According to the description, the director word about the duel. Only after five years I was of the Kyiv film studio Vasili Tsvirkunov was a told that some duel happened. Allegedly, with trusted representative - a “second” of Illienko, guns. Somebody had fallen into the river...” while multiple people performed this function for Instead, Verkhovyna’s projectionist Vasyl Korzhuk Parajanov. confirmed that the duel truly happened but However, the six steps distance had not been as an entertainment event, one of many that complied with. On the way to the duel, the took place during the filming process (other cinematographer of Shadows of Forgotten entertainment included the theatrical funeral Ancestors had to pass a wooden bridge, which of Parajanov or the robbery of the Moscow’s was swept away by stormy waters of the film director). Furthermore, Halyna Mokan, the mountain river Cheremosh. Allegedly, it was at director of the house-museum where Shadows of this point that Illienko dreamed of fire horses that Forgotten Ancestors was filmed, recalls the story could jump across the bridge. Those same horses of Marichka Soruk, the daughter of the owners’ appeared in the film. house. According to Soruk, the confusions The strained relationship between the film between Parajanov and Illienko often turned director and the cinematographer tells a lot. into evening verbal discussions: “When they Tiberiy Szilvashi, who was not at the duel, but quarreled in the room. She knocked on the door was going to that direction of Verhovyna by foot and brought them a plate of bacon, cheese, and crossing torn bridges (there were no buses in self-made vodka. And so they had a dinner and the region), recalls a typical situation the of the stopped arguing.” shooting process, “Illienko shouted at Parajanov: Parajanov disagreed with Illienko on adding “fire “I’ll kill you!” A horrible outcry. Sort of a regular horses” to the movie and was convinced only discussion about the film.” during the final stage of editing. Thus, the film However, despite the detailed description, was called Fire Horses during its distribution in many have questioned Illienko’s version of the France. event. Mainly, because of the excessive poetical Borys Filonenko art critic 46 47 Titian Vecellio Sacred and Profane Love, c. 1514 Oil on canvas, 118x279 Galleria Borghese (Rome) Amor sacro e Amor profano Title: This film is a poetic drama about (Amor sacro e Amor profano, 1514) to explain encompassing love of Ivan and Marichka. Marichka and Palagna, two main female Love is a centerpiece in Shadows of Forgotten characters. The third dimension reflects Ancestors. It transcends over several plot lines. traditional Hutsul wedding where parents’ The first is Kotsiubynsky’s own interpretation calculations prevail over love. The wedding through Shakespeare’s narrative of Romeo and scene where guests tied Ivan’s and Palagna’s Juliet in which Hutenyuk and Poliychuk families eyes and attached a yoke on them causedfuror assume the roles of the original’s Montagues among the viewers. For some it was the crux of and Capulets. The novel’s Ivan and Marichka the film, while others were outraged by it. The hide in a church or a forest, “so old people will custom with a yoke, as well as most of other not know how children of warring families wedding elements, was completely made up. Yet Tetyana Bestayeva as Palagna and Ivan Mykolaichuk as Ivan make love.” On the other hand, Parajanov it created one of the most memorable images. Photo from the filming grounds, 1963 recalled Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love From the archive of Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio National Museum (Kyiv) 76 77 The film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Сomrade Narodnitsky: Parajanov could not appeared when cinema was drifting in the deep create such a masterpiece if he was not a mature swamp of social realism aimed at the very artist. You had to find a material and the ways to authentic reproduction of life that left no space convey messages he wanted to. I am sure that if for genuine art. Any realism – no matter how Dovzhenko and Eisenstein were now living, they you call it – is a dead end. Here, the concept would shake our hands. This is our heritage. and statistics substitute the images and art. It Comrade. Tsybulnik: I do not want to talk leads to the disappearance of the author and about specific details. I thought that if a his replacement with a functionary man. wedding scene or that in a tavern would last From Yuriy Illienko’s essay Free Man [1] a little longer, I would fall unconsciousness. Parajanov feels fine art and ethnography. The man finally lived up to a point he came Serhiy Parajanov was filming Shadows of closest to Kotsiubynsky like nobody else Forgotten Ancestors as a purely Ukrainian film: “You think, I do not understand why I Excerpt from the Arts Board of am in charge of this work? They say, this Olseksandr Dovzhenko film studio Armenian will not be able to make a good film September 4, 1964 [1] from Kotsiubynsky’s text! Well, I will make a good film! I’ll make a film, which will not be translatable to any language. The translation The Arts Board considers it necessary to will be unnecessary, everything will be clear. include the film Shadows of Forgotten I’ll show them Ukraine.” Serhiy Parajanov Ancestors to the first payment category. carried the “Ukrainian cross” with dignity and V. Tsvirkunov Excerpt from the Arts tenacity. But why? Different people will point out Board of Olseksandr Dovzhenko film studio different reasons. I will give mine: Shevchenko on defining the payment category to the and Shevchenko’s Kavkaz [Caucasus] probably filming crew on October 15, 1964 [1] influenced Parajanov’s decision to live and work in Kyiv. The words from Kobzar: “Fight and you shall prevail!” was one of his favorite quotes. I I remember my dad brought me to the premiere had often heard them from Serhiy Parajanov when Tetyana Bestayeva was naked on the when he or someone else was in trouble or screen, and the people were breaking chairs sorrow.
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