Поводир

Поводир

Heading to Ukraine, which in the 1930s was going through not the best times, Michael Shamrock was full of hopes and plans. An engineer by profession, he thought that he would be useful in creating a socialist state of the future, in which he would be assisted by his son Peter. However, the American dies after receiving secret papers about repression in the country, which were revealed in Peter's book. A ten-year-old boy has to escape from the police, which later leads him to the blind kobzar Ivan Kocherga. The musician accepts his new friend as a guide and tries to protect him from all the terrible things that happen around them. Read more Oles Sanin's film released under the title "Guide" has another title, which sounds like "Flowers have eyes". One of the main roles in the film was to be played by the American actor of Ukrainian origin, Jack Palance. In addition to English, Pelans could also speak Ukrainian, but he died in 2006, when preparations for filming were just underway. Among the many kobzars who appear in "The Guide" by Oles Sanin, many are truly blind. For example, among them is a participant of the Paralympics Viktor Zasyadkovich, a holder of a black belt in judo. Especially for one of the fight scenes in the film, he taught the art of fighting called "crutch", which was used by real kobzars. The boy Anton Svyatoslav Green, who played the role of the boy Peter in "The Guide", himself is from the USA, and his great-grandfather was a prisoner of a Soviet labor camp. For the singer Jamala, the role in the film was the first in her cultural career. The first scene of the film was shot in 2012, namely in February. Initially, it was planned that the premiere of the drama would be in August 2013, which did not happen as a result. It was based on a real case that happened in Ukraine in 1934. Then about two hundred kobzars were taken to the forest and shot under false pretenses.