Based on the play of the same name by Mykola Kulish. The film is set in the 1920s and tells of a brief period of "introduction" of the Ukrainian language (Ukrainization). This is the story of one crazy person living in the same crazy world.
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Cast
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Mykola Babenko
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Tamara Yatsenko
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Iryna Doroshenko
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Olha Surzha
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Yakiv Syrotenko
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Rayisa Nedashkivska
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Olha Sumska
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Valeriy Neviedrov
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Lev Perfilov
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Leonid Marchenko
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Mykola Zadniprovskyi
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Yevhen Malukha
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Rostyslav Synko Director · Mykola Kulish Author Igor Belyak Production designer
First release September 17, 1991 · Produced in Russia · Original title Народний Малахій
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Russia
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Original title
Народний Малахій
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Ukrainian
Release dates
Russia · September 17, 1991
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