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Screening of “Slovo House. Unfinished Novel”
Slovo House is a story about a generation of Ukrainian artists persecuted by the totalitarian system, unfolding against the backdrop of one of the largest genocides of the 20th century – the Holodomor.
Directed by Taras Tomenko.
Screened in partnership with Cineast.
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“Slovo” House. Unfinished Novel is a dramatic story about Ukrainian writers from the era of the “Executed Renaissance,” who were gathered under the roof of one building and forced to work for the benefit of the Soviet system. The film depicts how the communist paradise turns into communist hell.
In 1927, Soviet Ukraine, by order of Stalin, the “Slovo” cooperative house was built in Kharkiv. The most outstanding Ukrainian writers live in comfortable apartments. All of them became participants in an experiment aimed at deriving a new type of Soviet writer and establishing total control over the creative process in order to create a single artistic method of socialist realism. However, not every writer agrees to glorify Stalin’s cult. Unexpectedly for the residents of the “Slovo” House, an unknown young writer named Volodymyr Akimov moves in with them. Who is he? No one knows. With his arrival, strange things begin to happen in the “Slovo” House, things that its walls still remain silent about.
Original title: Будинок СЛОВО. Нескінчений роман.
Director: Taras Tomenko
Starring: Dmytro Oliynyk, Vyacheslav Dovzhenko, Stanislav Suknenko
Genre: Drama
Audio: Ukrainian
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 2 hours
Country/year of production: Ukraine, 2021