28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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The Wheel
The Wheel
The Wheel
The Wheel

The Wheel

director: Mykhailo lIenko
original title: Kolo
country: USSR
year: 1972
running time: 18 min.

synopsis

A poetic portrait of sculptors who create their works on the potter's wheel from clay and other natural materials. The theme of the potter's wheel permeates through poetic scenes in which sculptors are captured at work, with their families, hand in hand with nature, and also in vivid images where both the creators and their artifacts are installed in everyday environments.

biography

Director, screenwriter, cameraman and actor Mykhail Illienko (b. 1947) mainly shoots feature films that often reflect the modern history of Ukraine, the Second World War or communistic totalitarianism. The film, Fuchzhou (1994), loosely follows the Ukrainian poetic tradition and is one of many key works for folklore film.

more about film

director: Mykhailo lIenko
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
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