A Farewell To Cinema

Documentary film created in 1990 based on the script of artists Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko. Picturesque landscapes of Kolguyev Island, conversations with the Nenets, intimate personal reflections of Volodymyr and Ada and their work in the workshop. "The Cry of the Bird" is a philosophical parable, the main character of which is the Kolguyev Island.

Documentary about the destruction of the Wall of Memory, the monumental avant-garde reliefs at Kyiv crematorium that artists Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko had been working on since 1968, after local authorities concreted them over in 1982.

Nameless monologues against the backdrop of a bustling city and relatives seeing off to a medical-labor prophylactic center.

Poet Borys Oliynyk, as well as party officials and local residents, recount the coordinated cleanup efforts following the accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

The film is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar. A memorial service and a requiem rally are shown. The writer I. F. Drach makes a speech. Photo and film documents from the Second World War are used.