Zaporozhets za Dunayem
Poster
Ukrainfilm
Production company
Zaporozhets za Dunayem
Cossacks Beyond the Danube
Запорожець за Дунаєм
Запорожец за Дунаем
1937
Color lithograph
Overall: 32 1/2 × 23 in. (82.6 × 58.4 cm)
Museum accession
TextIvan Kavaleridze (1887–1978)—a sculptor, experimental filmmaker, and playwright—was a leading figure of the Ukrainian avant-garde. In 1936–37, he adapted two classical Ukrainian operas for the screen: Mykola Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka and Semen Hulak-Artemovsky's Zaporozhets za Dunayem. These were not only the first Ukrainian operas to be filmed, but also the first operas in the history of Soviet cinema. By coincidence, soon after, versions of these operas, also in Ukrainian, were filmed in New Jersey by Vasile Avramenko and Edgar Ulmer. Their Natalka Poltavka is preserved at the Eastman Museum.
Ukrainian-language films were distributed across the Soviet republics, and this poster from our collection was printed in Moscow.
Peter Bagrov, Senior Curator, Moving Image Department
March 2022
Ukrainian-language films were distributed across the Soviet republics, and this poster from our collection was printed in Moscow.
Peter Bagrov, Senior Curator, Moving Image Department
March 2022
