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There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.
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우크라이나의 이름난 전사 아이반 카차니크의 손자 유리는 그림을 잘 그리는 시골 청년으로 자란다. 사랑하는 여인과 함께 하기만을 꿈꿨던 그는 러시아 황제의 죽음과 소련의 공산화라는 시대의 흐름에 휘말리게 된다. 고향을 떠나 키예프에서 예술가의 꿈을 이루려 노력하지만 소련의 혹독한 착취는 그의 삶을 통째로 바꿔 놓는다.
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This film does not deal with Chernobyl, but rather with the world of Chernobyl, about which we know very little. Eyewitness reports have survived: scientists, teachers, journalists, couples, children... They tell of their old daily lives, then of the catastrophe. Their voices form a long, terrible but necessary supplication which traverses borders and stimulates us to question our status quo.
