Original title: Chetverta khvylia.

Copyright: Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, 2008.

Format: feature documentary

Carrier: DVD

Color: color

Length: 80 min.

Original language: Ukrainian with some Italian and Russian

English subtitles: yes

Film crew

Director: Victoria Melnykova

Script writer: Ihor Zhuk and Valentyn Marchenko

Cinematographer: Valentyn Melnychenko

Sound: Iryna Skrypchenko and Maria Nesterenko

Editing: Victoria Melnykova

Synopsis

This is the first installment in a documentary series about the so-called Fourth Wave of Ukrainian emigration to the West that started after the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991. The film focuses on the fate of the Ukrainian composer Volodymyr Zubytsky who could not realize his creative genius in an independent Ukraine and had to move to Italy to a small town of Pesaro. His story is presented as typical  of a massive talent and brain drain that has occurred in Ukraine over the last two decades. Thousands of highly educated and uniquely talented Ukrainians contrary to their will had to leave their homeland in search of a happier life in the West.