To mark the 130th birthday of Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, the Ukrainian Institute in Germany invites you to a screening of Dovzhenko's silent film ARSENAL (USSR/Ukrainian SSR 1928) with live music by British multi-instrumentalist Guy Bartell. Following the screening, film experts Anna Onufrienko and Barbara Wurm will talk about the director, his special film language and his connections to German Expressionism.
Thu 12.9., 20h, musical accompaniment: Guy Bartell, followed by a discussion with Anna Onufrienko (Dovzhenko Centre) and Barbara Wurm (Berlinale Forum)
ARSENAL Oleksandr Dovzhenko USSR/Ukrainian SSR 1928 Ukrainian ZT with Engl. UT 92'
ARSENAL is an avant-garde account of one of the most dramatic periods in Ukrainian history, when Ukraine gained its independence from the Russian Empire in 1917, albeit only for a short time. Soldiers return from the front lines of the First World War and rise up in the Kyiv Arsenal factory in a pro-Soviet uprising. The uprising is soon put down by troops of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
An event organized by the Ukrainian Institute in Germany in cooperation with the Dovzhenko Centre Kyiv.