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Directed by: Taras Tomenko
Country:
Ukraine
Runtime: 1hr 31min
Year: 2017
Last Screened:
Sun 29th Apr 2018
Taras Tomenko’s gripping Slovo House conjures up the vibrant community of writers in 1920's Ukraine, and traces how this supposed paradise turned into a living hell.
Designed in the late 1920s in Ukraine’s then-capital city of Kharkiv, Slovo House was built with the personal approval of Stalin as a communist haven for lauded Ukrainian writers. But as the Ukrainian art revival soured, and state control tightened, the writers faced a harrowing fate.
Taras Tomenko’s gripping film conjures up the vibrant community of Slovo House in its heyday, and traces how this supposed paradise turned into a living hell.