Original title: Poema o more
Copyright: the Mosfilm Studio, 1958
Format: feature narrative
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 103"; 11 p., 3005 m.
Original language: Russian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Yulia Solntseva
Script writer: Oleksander Dovzhenko
Cinematographer: Gavriil Yegizarov
Production design: Aleksandr Borisov,  Ivan Plastinkin
Original music: Gavriil Popov

Film cast
Boris Livanov, Boris Andreyev, Mikhail Tsarev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Leonid Tarabarinov, Georgy Kovrov, Natalia Naum, M. Vital, Ye. Bondarenko, and others

Synopsis
A village by the Dnipro is to be flooded as soon as an electric power plant dam is completed. The material culture and the history of the villagers will end up at the bottom of a huge man-made sea. Think of the houses where your parents lived, where you were born, the street where you met your love; think of your family’s sacred, ancestral graves. The collective farm director, Zarudny, summons his former co-villagers. Almost all who grew up in the Dnipro village gather. With pride, Zarudny declares, “A hundred and ninety teachers, agronomists, doctors and engineers, six colonels, the general Porokhnia, the army general Fedorchenko!” A wake for the life that has passed is held. A new village is built on the hill. It is a new life with its own problems and challenges, no different from the perennial challenges of human existence.

Awards. Lenin prize for the screenplay to O. Dovzhenko (posthumously), 1959.