№23, 2008 59 minutes of disgraceEcho: “Youth”
The film explores the phenomenon of the post-genocide society on the example of one Ukrainian village — Velyka Fosnya in Zhytomyr region. In 1933 64 houses out of 86 were devastated by famine. An extraordinarily interesting man, the researcher of famine Yakiv Gryshchuk, who lives in neighboring Mala Fosnya, tells about it from the screen. He shows the secret places of mass burial which he found himself, having collected the certificate of hundred and hundred witnesses of Famine in these regions. Yakiv Gryshchuk with the help of personal funds constructed ten monuments and the stele in the center of the village, where he engraved the last names of those who died because of famine. Information has appeared that the TV channels “Inter” and ІСTV became interested in this film. Obviously the Ukrainian audience soon will manage to watch “Landscape after Famine” duration of which is 59 minutes, on television. But I doubt whether everyone will find forces to watch it to the end, because it is not really easy. Yuriy POTASHNIY |