Toloka (2020)
There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.
Director: Mykhailo Illienko
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Ivanna Illienko as Kateryna |
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Dmytro Linartovych as Ivan |
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Bohdan Beniuk as Lomaka |
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Serhii Romaniuk as Brigadier |
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Dmytro Rybalevskyi as Vasyl |
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Oleh Prymohenov as General |
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Vasyl Kukharskyi as |
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Myroslav Hai as |
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Kostiantyn Koretskyi as |
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Oleksandr Ihnatusha as |
| Production | Oleksandra Bratyshchenko | Line Producer |
| Directing | Mykhailo Illienko | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mariia Kero | Costume Designer |
| Writing | Taras Shevchenko | Author |
| Writing | Mykhailo Illienko | Writer |
| Production | Mykhailo Illienko | Producer |
| Production | Marianna Novikova | Producer |
| Camera | Oleksandr Kryshtalovych | Director of Photography |
| Art | Roman Adamovych | Production Design |
| Art | Mykola Kishchuk | Production Design |
| Editing | Yurii Hruzynov | Editor |
| Editing | Viktor Maliarenko | Editor |
| Production | Tetiana Shepeleva | Casting Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gala Otenko | Costume Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alina Maistruk | Makeup Department Head |
| Directing | Anastasiia Ivashchuk | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Serhii Korniienko | Second Unit Director |
| Directing | Yanina Kucher | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Arina Basheva | Property Master |
| Sound | Anton Brzhestovskyi | Sound |
| Sound | Artem Mostovyi | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Ruslan Shebystyi | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Andrii Starykovskyi | Foley Mixer |
| Visual Effects | Oleh Verenko | VFX Artist |
| Crew | Maksym Volynets | Stunt Driver |
| Lighting | Bohdan Demchyshyn | Lighting Technician |
| Camera | Mykola Dorohin | Grip |
| Camera | Timur Minazirov | Camera Operator |