Toloka (Толока)

Overview

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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Cast

Ivanna Illienko

Kateryna

Dmytro Linartovych

Ivan

Bohdan Beniuk

Lomaka

Serhii Romaniuk

Brigadier

Dmytro Rybalevskyi

Vasyl

Oleh Prymohenov

General

Vasyl Kukharskyi

Myroslav Hai

Kostiantyn Koretskyi

Oleksandr Ihnatusha