How Ukrainians Started Speaking Ukrainian
“How did the Ukrainian language emerge?”
2024•56m•Released
Documentary
An educational film about the birth, development, decline, persecution, and flourishing of the Ukrainian language. It shows how it was formed, changed, filled with borrowed words and formed its own neologisms. The film is divided into five historically important periods: Rus, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Hetmanate, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union. Each era “spoke” its own language, and here you will hear for the first time how it sounded in different centuries. The presenter, a famous theater and film actor Oleksii Hnatkovskyi, will guide the viewer through the historical periods. In a simple, accurate, sometimes humorous way, he will tell how our language developed during the periods of creation, development, division, fierce wars and total bans.
Director
Volodymyr Bakum
Writer
Volodymyr Bakum, Snizhana Kutrakova
Languages
Ukrainian
Studio
Suspilne Media
Cast
Oleksii Hnatkovskyi
Host - self
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