Toloka
110 mins
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.
Oleksandr Kryshtalovych
Director of Photography
Mykola Kishchuk
Production Design
Tetiana Shepeleva
Casting Director
Gala Otenko
Costume Designer
Anastasiia Ivashchuk
Assistant Director
Serhii Korniienko
Second Unit Director
Arina Basheva
Property Master
Anton Brzhestovskyi
Sound
Ruslan Shebystyi
Foley Artist
Andrii Starykovskyi
Foley Mixer
Maksym Volynets
Stunt Driver
Bohdan Demchyshyn
Lighting Technician
Mykola Dorohin
Grip
Timur Minazirov
Camera Operator