Original title: Zahybel bohiv
Copyright: the Oleksander Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio, the Debut Creative Association, 1988
Format: feature narrative
Carrier: DVD
Color: black and white
Length: 29"; 3 p., 887 m.
Original language: Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Andry Donchyk
Script writer: Yevhen Hutsalo
Cinematographer: Mykhailo Kretov
Artistic designer: Oleksander Danylenko

Film cast
Yaroslav Havruliuk, Boryslav Brondukov, Hennady Harbuk, Liudmyla Lobza, Tetiana Nazarova, Heorhy Moroziuk, Volodymyr Oleksienko

Synopsis
This is a screen adaptation of an unfinished script from Dovzhenko’s journal entries. An artist arrives in a village with the intention of building an iconostasis in the village church. The villagers who pose for various saints—to be depicted on the iconostasis— notice that they experience a kind of spiritual elation in the process. This is openly resented by the representatives of the new revolutionary authorities. The iconostasis is destroyed and the artist arrested and taken away.