Original title: Bilyi ptakh z chornoiu oznakoiu.

Copyright: Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, 1970.

Produced by the Oleksander Dovzhenko Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Format: feature narrative

Carrier: DVD

Color: color, digitally restored version of the original motion picture by the Information Business Systems and Telecommunications, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Length: 97 min.

Original language: Ukrainian with some Romanian and Russian.

English subtitles: yes

Film crew

Director: Yurii Illienko

Written by Yurii Illienko and Ivan Mykolaichuk

Director of photography: Vilen Kaliuta

Production designer:  A. Mamontov

Costume designer: L. Baikova

Sound editor: L. Vachi

Supervising editor: V. Yurchenko

Cinematographer: O. Len

Assistant directors: Yu. Fokin, I. Milutenko, H. Zilberman, V. Vinnyk, L. Kustova, V. Trubnikov

Art director: M. Poshtarenko

Music performed by the Hlynnytsia Village Folk Orchestra

Ethnography consultant: I. Snihur

Production manager: P. Tarasov

Film cast

Larysa Kadochnykova as Dana

Ivan Mykolaichuk as Petro Dzvonar

Bohdan Stupka as Orest Dzvonar

Yuri Mykolaichuk as Bohdan Dzvonar

Natalia Naum as Katryna

D. Firsova as Vivdia

O. Plotnikov as Les Dzvonar

V. Symchych as father Myron

O. Polstvin as Heorhii when a boy

Mykhailo Illienko as Heorhii

L. Bakshtaev as Ostap

V. Shakalo as Levytsky

Kostiantyn Stepankov as Cuckoo

M. Oliinyk as Roman

People of the region of Bukovyna appear in mass scenes.

Synopsis

This dramatic and captivating story of the Dzvonar family caught in the whirlwinds of history, unfolding against a hypnotically beautiful backdrop of the Carpathian Mountains, echoes the fate of the Ukrainian people oppressed, humiliated, and brutalized by foreign invaders in the twentieth century. It features an impressive line-up of actors, including Ivan Mykolaichuk, Larysa Kadochnykova, Kostiantyn Stepankov, Bohdan Stupka, and Natalia Naum. The “White Bird with A Black Mark” is Ukrainian filmmaking at its best waiting to be discovered by the Western viewers.