Stone Cross: screening
Date and time:
Tuesday 27 February, 2024
20:30 - 22:00
Location:
The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street WC2B 5PQ
London
WC2B 5PQ
Director: Leonid Osyka
Genre: Drama Year: 1968 Duration: 82 min
Language: Ukrainian with English subtitles
A Galician peasant decides to leave his ancestral home and seek a better life in Canada, erecting a stone cross on a hill in his own memory.
Inspired by stories of the Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk (1871–1936), this film is Ukrainian poetic cinema at its best. In a larger sense, Ivan Didukh’s stone cross is the monument to thousands of his compatriots who left and are still compelled to leave their homeland today.
