About the film
In the mid-1950s the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam is being built, and a whole region of the Dnieper valley will be flooded. People born in a doomed village come home to say goodbye.
The film mixes grand hopes for the future with grief for homes, gardens and graves that will be lost.
It was written by Alexander Dovzhenko, who died just before filming, and directed by his widow, Yuliya Solntseva.
Did you know?
- Alexander Dovzhenko wrote the script but died in 1956, just before shooting began.
- Dovzhenko was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize for the script.
