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September 1, 2011, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Derzhkino to Restore More Films

 

Leonid Osyka's masterpiece "Stone Cross," 1968, has just been restored.

Ukraine's State Administration for Cinematography Derzhkino made public a list of eleven Ukrainian films from the Soviet era to be restored, digitally re-mastered, and issued in a DVD-format with English subtitles in the coming years. They include: "At a High Price," 1957, by Mikhail Donskoi, "Kyiv Frescos," 1966, by Serhii Paradzhanov, "Consciousness," 1968, by Volodymyr Denysenko, "Out of Boredom," 1968, by Artur Voitetsky, "Bread and Salt," 1970, by Hryhorii Kokhan, "Do You Know How to Live?," 1970, by Oleksander Muratov, "Long Farewell," 1971, by Kira Muratova, "Black Hen or Dwellers of the Underground," 1980, by Viktor Gres, "Flights in Dream and Reality," 1982, by Roman Balaian, "Starlings," 1982, by Kostiantyn Yershov,  "Zakhar Berkut," 1984, by Leonid Osyka. The image and sound restoration of these films as a commission funded by the state will be carried out by the Oleksander Dovzhenko Center.

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