Той, хто пройшов крізь вогонь = ToyKhtoProyshovKrizVohon = Firecrosser

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Barcode: 58994172 Call Number: V-UKR 015 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 110 min Date: 2011 Language: Russian AND Ukrainian Creator: Directed by Mykhailo Illienko Description: "In 1967, a Ukrainian delegation brought the news from Canada that the chief of one of Canadian Indians’ tribes was a Ukrainian, Ivan Datsenko – a pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, whom everybody had considered killed in battle. The film director, Mykhailo ILLenko, picked up the story, but he turned it not into a biopic, or even a blockbuster, but a true-to-life legend of the Ukrainian Odysseus, whose hard fate was steeper than any conceivable or unconceivable human hopes, aspirations, or feelings. Ivan Dodoka is presented as a collective image of a Ukrainian, who has experienced everything on the paths of his/her life: famine, war, imprisonment by Germans and in Stalin's camps. The brave protagonist manages to overcome all circumstances and gain freedom. However, the ruthless fate takes Ivan almost to the edge of the earth. Finally, he takes refuge in an Indian tribe in Canada, and later he gets his new name – FireCrosser..." -- Umka Collection: Language Resource Center