Memories Echoing in Sounds...

Aug 10, 1987

1h 25m

★ 8.0

Overview

Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko goes for a walk in Kyiv. Along the way, his memory takes him back in time: first to his childhood in the village of Hrynky; to May 1861, when he attended Taras Shevchenko's funeral; to a trip to Leipzig; to the time when he was working on the opera "Taras Bulba"; to the images of Olha O'Connor and Olha Lypska, who gave him love, happiness, and inspiration.

Genres

History

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

Memories Echoing in Sounds... Trailers

Cast

Mykola Lysenko

Fedir Stryhun

Igor Taradaikin

Maksym Shaporenko

Olha O'Connor

Elena Karadzhova

Olha Sumska

Lysenko's Father

Pavel Makhotin

Lysenko's Mother

Nina Veselovskaya

Starytsky

Andrey Kharitonov

Ostap Veresay

Volodymyr Antonov

Kostiantyn Stepankov

Valeri Potapenko

Andrei Krylov

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