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The Downfall of Deities

1988 · 30 min

A quiet, dreamlike short that drifts between pastoral beauty and sudden ideological violence, leaving a lingering sense of loss.

Directed by
Andriy Donchyk
Genres
Drama
Starring
Boryslav Brondukov, Hennadiy Harbuk, Yaroslav Havryliuk
Overview
While watching Dovzhenko's Earth a young man imagines himself a painter in a Ukrainian village in the 1930s. All is pastoral idyll until the authorities arrive with Soviet wrath for tradition and religion.

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Directed by
Andriy Donchyk
Genres
Drama
Starring
Boryslav Brondukov, Hennadiy Harbuk, Yaroslav Havryliuk
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • memory
  • faith
  • power
  • trauma
Places
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
Yevhen Hutsalo
Starring
Boryslav Brondukov, Hennadiy Harbuk, Yaroslav Havryliuk, Tetiana Nazarova, Volodymyr Oleksienko
Runtime
30 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Ukrainian

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