A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.
When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a stream, admired by the creatures of the woods. But an army of beetles, bent on conquering new territories, wants to cross the stream - and the lily is...
One of the few known films shot in 1917 in Ukraine (UPR). The film contains portrait of the head of the General Secretariat - the first government of Ukraine, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, the head of the Ukrainian Central Rada, Professor Mykhailo Hrushevsky, with a group of members of the UCR near the...