Dovzhenko Centre Presents: The July Storms. Strike

Year
1989
Country
Ukrainian SSR
Duration
82’
Directors
Anatolii Karas, Viktor Shkurin

The July Storms is a duology about the first mass protests in Soviet Ukraine in a long time. The parts of the duology, Strike and Outburst, are dedicated to two waves of miners’ strikes in Donetsk, in 1989 and 1990, which were unprecedented in scale. Several hundred thousand miners took part in these historical strikes. The events themselves became a significant factor in the history of the collapse of the Soviet communist system. While recording the unfolding of the strike and the miners’ speeches on the square in Donetsk, the film’s creators also observe the miners’ miserable living conditions and hard working conditions at the Lidiyevka mine.

Production
Ukrainian Studio of Chronicle Documentary Films, Krynytsia Artistic Union
Sales:
Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, 1 Vasylkivska str., Kyiv 03040, Ukraine, +380442016574, [email protected], www.dovzhenkocentre.org
Director
Anatolii Karas

Anatolii Karas was born in 1940 in the Moscow region in the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic. He is a director and a screenwriter. He graduated from the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University. Worked as a reporter for Vechirniy Kyiv, an editor for UkrKinoKhronika, and a director of documentary films.

Selected Filmography

Selected: The Future Starts Today (1974), Strategy of Quality (1976), A Word about the Five-Year Plan (1980), Komandarms of the Industry (1980), Don’t Touch Me (1981)

Director
Viktor Shkurin

Viktor Shkurin was born in 1932 in Mariupol, Ukrainian SSR. He is a film director, a People’s Artist of Ukraine. He graduated from the Odessa Nautical School and the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Worked as a dispatcher and a port director on Spitsbergen; since 1964, he has worked as a director for UkrKinoKhronika.

Selected Filmography

Selected: The Two from the Open-Hearth Furnace (1965), Paraska Bida and the Good People (1967), In Non-Flying Weather (1968), Date of Birth 1918 (1968), Soviet Character (1988), Leonid Kravchuk. Selection of Fate (2003)

Main Hall
Lira Cinema
vul. Velyka Zhytomyrska, 40
Q&A with the film crew
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