Hutsulka Ksenya

Hutsulka Ksenya
Directed byOlena Demyanenko
Produced byOlena Demyanenko
Production
company
Distributed byB&H Film Distribution Company [uk]
Release date
  • 7 March 2019 (2019-March-07)[1]
Running time
90 minutes
LanguageUkrainian

Hutsulka Ksenya (Ukrainian: Гуцулка Ксеня) is a 2019 Ukrainian musical film directed by Olena Demyanenko,[2] based on the operetta of the same name by Yaroslav Barnych [uk].[3]

Plot

Set in 1939 with the occupation of Western Ukraine, the Bolsheviks remain several weeks. In Vorokhta comes an American of Ukrainian origin Yaro (Maxim Lozinsky) to marry a Ukrainian. Only on this condition, he can the inherit large wealth of his father. Yuro is familiar with Ksenia (Varvara Lushchka), which changes his plans.[4]

Creative group

Screenplay — Olena Demyanenko (based on the operetta of the same name by Yaroslav Barnych).

Music — Yaroslav Barnych, Timur Polyansky and freak cabaret "Dakh Daughters".

Tango director — Vyacheslav Grinchenko.

Directed by Olena Demyanenko.

The cinematographer is Dmitry Yashenkov.

Production designer— Yuri Larionov.

Costume designer — Nadiya Kudryavtseva.

Make-up artist — Vitaly Skopelidis.

Editing — Igor Rak.

Sound director — Artem Mostovy.

Executive producer — Eugenia Rauch.

Producers — Olena Demyanenko and Dmytro Tomashpolsky.

Production

Estimate

Hutsulka Ksenya became one of the winners of the ninth competitive selection of the State Enterprise. The share of financing Derzhkino — ₴ 23.9 million from total estimate in ₴ 47.8 million.[5]

Film

The shooting pavilion took place at the Kyiv film studio named Dovzhenko on specially built 15 objects. Nature shooting for the film took place in the Carpathians and in the Zhytomyr region.[6]

Soundtrack

Lyrics and music for the film soundtrack wrote and accomplished the Kyiv Music Group “Dakh Daughters” and other performers.[7][8]

Release

The film came out in a wide Ukrainian rental on March 7, 2019, Distributor — B&H.[9] The film came out on the Takflix Vod platform on February 27, 2020.

The tape received approvals from Ukrainian film critics.[10]

Awards

On July 1, 2019, the film won the Grand Prix of the festival “Mt. Fuji — Atami International Film & VR Festival”, which takes place in Japan.[11][12]

At the IV Golden Whirlwind Film Awards, held on May 3, 2020, in the online show mode, the film was presented in nine nominations (sharing 2-3 places with the film “My thoughts are quiet” and skipping ahead of the film “Home” — 11 nominations). He won two nominations — “Golden Whirlwind Award for Best Composer” (Timur Polyansky, Dakh Daughters Freak Cabaret) and “Best Song” (“Mermaid Mavka”, Dakh Daughters Freak Cabaret).[13]

References

  1. ^ B&H Film Distribution Company (14 December 2018). "Гуцулка Ксеня. Офіційний трейлер". YouTube (in Ukrainian).
  2. ^ "Hutsulka Ksenya (2019)". MUBI. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. ^ Олег Данилов (9 March 2019). "Рецензія на фільм "Гуцулка Ксеня"". ITC.ua (in Ukrainian).
  4. ^ "«Гуцулка Ксеня»: творці про один із найочікуваніших фільмів 2019 року". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  5. ^ Виробництво фільму-мюзикла «Гуцулка Ксеня» завершено // Телекритика, 15.11.2018
  6. ^ «Гуцулка Ксеня»: творці про один із найочікуваніших фільмів 2019 року // РС, 28 лютого 2019
  7. ^ «Ми грали самих себе» — учасниці гурту Dakh Daughters розповіли про зйомки в українському фільмі «Гуцулка Ксеня» // Gazeta.ua, 06 березня 2019
  8. ^ Гуцулка Ксеня (офіційний саундтрек фільму). Amazon.com, 2019
  9. ^ "У прокат вийшов музичний фільм "Гуцулка Ксеня" | Новини на Gazeta.ua". 8 March 2019. Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  10. ^ ""Гуцулка Ксеня" — мандрівка крізь час - Детектор медіа". 13 March 2019. Archived from the original on 13 March 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  11. ^ "2008 WPA film festival winners". PsycEXTRA Dataset. 2008. doi:10.1037/e541292009-008. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  12. ^ ""Гуцулка Ксеня" отримала головну нагороду кінофестивалю в Японії". Archived from the original on 5 July 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  13. ^ Admink, Admink; Гайдукевич, Катерина (3 May 2020). "ВИДОВИЩЕ ТА ВИДОВИЩНІСТЬ В СУЧАСНІЙ КУЛЬТУРІ УКРАЇНИ". УКРАЇНСЬКА КУЛЬТУРА: МИНУЛЕ, СУЧАСНЕ, ШЛЯХИ РОЗВИТКУ (НАПРЯМ: КУЛЬТУРОЛОГІЯ) (33): 110–116. doi:10.35619/ucpmk.vi33.299. ISSN 2518-1890. S2CID 219069078.