Toloka
7.0
There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.
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Ivanna Illienko
Kateryna
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Dmytro Linartovych
Ivan
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Maksym Asadchyi
Mykhailo Illienko
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Yuliia Cherniavska
Galina Otenko
Serhii Romaniuk
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Bogdan Benyuk
Tetiana Fedotova
Mykhailo Illienko Director · Taras Shevchenko Author Oleksandr Kryshtalovych Cinematographer
Budget $3.5M · First release August 20, 2020 · Produced in Ukraine
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Budget
$3,504,863
Production
Illienko Film
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Ukrainian State Film Agency
Production
Ukraine
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Original title
Толока
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Ukrainian
Release dates
United Kingdom · August 20, 2020
Ukraine · August 20, 2020
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No release date listed for United States.
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