Leonid Anichkin

Tur regrets being single until he meets a charming maiden to whom he promises a new pair of boots. He gets trapped at a witch’s sabbath hosted by the devil, who promises him a pair of boots in exchange for his soul.

Mykola Zerov was another prisoner of the Solovki camps. He was an outstanding Ukrainian poet, an excellent translator of ancient works, and a scholar of philology. Like others, he was destroyed by the repressive machine on Solovki.

The events of 1935–36 sent scientists, cultural figures, and Comintern workers to Solovki. Instead of a realm of free labor, there were prisons and camps; instead of blue socialism, there was the tyranny of petty Macbeths at the bottom of the camp hierarchy. This is a short documentary about Mykola Kulish, a Ukrainian writer.

About the fate of the great poet's legacy, which was collected and preserved by his friends and is now kept at the Taras Shevchenko State Museum in Kyiv.

The original artist Oleksandr Semernya never studied painting, but has been drawing for as long as he can remember.

The trials and tribulations of the wives and daughters of repressed "counterrevolutionaries" who shared the fate of their relatives in the Solovki camps.

The events of 1935–36 sent scientists, cultural figures, and Comintern workers to Solovki. Instead of a realm of free labor, there were prisons and camps; instead of blue socialism, there was the tyranny of petty Macbeths at the bottom of the camp hierarchy. This is a short documentary about Les Kurbas, a Ukrainian playwright.

Fate did not spare him trials and tribulations. It is impossible to imagine a more shameful punishment than being deprived of the right to write and paint, than years of exile as a soldier in the Orenburg Corps. However, military service did not destroy Taras's faith in God and people.