Kyiv Etude

director: Eduard Tymlin

original title: Kyi'vs'kyj etjud

country: USSR

year: 1966

running time: 9 min.

synopsis

Close-up details of sculptures and architecture in public spaces and shots of people on big city streets, set to music ranging from romantic tunes to jazz. The series of portraits and anthropological sketches shows one day in the life of Kyiv.

biography

Eduard Tymlin (1938) is primarily a cinematographer; in addition to his own work, he is the head of the Cinematography Department of the Film and Television faculty at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Czech audiences are familiar with Tymlin’s style thanks to his work on the film The Golem: The Petrified Garden. Roman Balayan cast him in a small role in his film Guard Me, My Talisman (1989).

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director:

Eduard Tymlin

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