DOVBUSH

Obsada SERGEY STRELNIKOV (OLEKSA DOVBUSH), OLEKSIY HNATHOVSKY (IVAN DOVBUSH), MATEUSZ KOSCIUKIEWICZ (PRZELUSKI), AGATA BUZEK (YABLONOWSKA), DARIA PLAVHTII (MARICHKA), JERZY SCHEJBAL (HETMAN POTOCKI

Akcja rozgrywa sie na poczatku XVIII wieku, kiedy obce rzady oznaczaja ciezkie czasy dla karpackich Huculow.Dwaj bracia Dovbush zostaja opryszkami – gorskimi banitami. Jednak bracia sa dla siebie wrogami; jednemu zalezy tylko na majatku, natomiast drugi, Oleksa, walczy o swoich ludzi. Przez Karpaty przelewaja sie fale powstan. Arystokraci uzywaja swojej potegi militarnej, zeby zgladzic Dovbusha i zniszczyc jego legende. Jednak on potrafi ich przechytrzyc. Zdesperowani magnaci wymyslaja plan, zeby wykorzystac piete achillesowa bohatera – jego uczucie do milosci z dziecinstwa, Mariczki. Kto zgladzi Opryszka, ktorego olbrzymia sila i odwaga sa zrodlem ludowych opowiesci? Czy zdradziecki plan magnatow usmierci bohatera zanim ten poprowadzi swoj lud do wolnosci?

OLES SANIN
Born in 1967 in Limanowa. Film director, screenwriter, producer. For many years he worked for TVP where he made series “Conversations at the end of the Century”. His “Angel in Cracow” was awarded Golden Teeth of Camera Award at the PFFA in 2002.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
Born in 1972 in Kamin-Kashyrskyi, Ukraine. Director, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer, producer, musician and sculptor. Graduate of Acting and Film Directing of the National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kyiv. In 2000-2004, he worked for the Ukrainian section of Internews Network. He produced several dozen documentaries for Ukrainian and international TV stations, including TNT, Polish Polsat, Swiss PRO Helvetia. Directed a few documentary and feature short films. Two of his films, the debut “Mamay” (2003) and “The Guide” (2014), were official Ukrainian entries for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He plays traditional instruments (bandura, turban, hurdy-gurdy), which he used to make himself.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY as a director

2023 Dovbush
2017 Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine, doc 2014 The Guide
2008 The Defector, doc
2005 The Seventh Day
2003 Mamay