Natalya Uzhviy (1959) - full transcript
Kiev Film Studios
NATALYA USHVIY
Scenario:
Yuri Martich
Director:
Sergei Parajanov
Director of Photography: V Tishkovez
Art Director: M Gantman
Sound: G Salov
Narrator: A Reshetnikov
This documentary was commissioned
by the Kiev Television Studios.
Like the waters of our Dniepr river,
clear and transparent
is the art of
Natalya Ushviy.
The great October revolution opens,
for the daughter of a poor farmer,
the doors to
the splendid world of art.
The enthusiastic art of
the famous Ukrainian actress
is loved by Soviet audiences
and is well known
outside of our land.
That which was
for many of us already History,
was for the young Natalya Ushviy
already life.
During the great civil war, thousands of
valiant sons and daughters of the people
because creators of
a new socialist culture.
From the box of the Kiev Theatre
dedicated to Taras Shevchenko, the
passionate poetry of the great actress
exhorts the revolutionaries
to new victories.
Listen!
And then tell our children
so they will know
and pass it on to their children,
with what harshness the Cossacks
have punished the Poles,
guilty of not being able to govern well.
In designing the image
of the heroic mother
for the monument
to the great poet Kharkov
the sculptor was inspired
by the features of the great actress.
Let there be such a son
and such a mother
and such people on the Earth.
In the film of the life of
Taras Shevchenko, Natalya Ushviy played
the sister of the poet.
I tell you that you must provide!
Take it, have pity, take it.
You have money?
Not even a penny.
I swear in Christ's name.
Begone!
- Don't ruin me. I beg of you!
- Begone now!
Good Sir...
Irina!
Don't you recognise me?
My sister...
Taras!
My brother!
The bleeding heart
of a simple woman,
exploited by the bosses
in the world of spectacle.
STOLEN HAPPINESS
with Natalya Ushviy and Amvrosi Buchma
in the lead roles
Anna...
Anna...
That policeman...
That Mikhail...
What do you want with him?
I know as a girl you were in love
with him and you know it too.
And so what?
Nothing.
But why cry?
Why break my heart?
Because mine is in pieces.
Anna...
But don't...
Don't you love me even a bit?
No.
Have you never loved me?
No!
Couldn't you at least
make an effort
to live with me as before?
Oh, no...
I'm lost.
Lord, Thy will be done.
Lord, why have you punished me so.
What have I done to you?
Don't blame me.
You know it's not my fault.
You know very well,
they forced me to marry you.
Until they used force...
I was a faithful wife.
Even if I didn't love you.
But now...
I don't have the strength.
Yes, look, I...
I understand you...
I...
The unhappy destiny of Anna
is inspired by the tragic events
in the life of the protagonist
of the film EARTH
based on a story by Olga Kobylyanskaya.
Earth!
Our people call it Mother.
But then it had become
a wicked stepmother
and because of it, many died,
in sweat and in blood.
For a piece of land,
one would kill even one's brothers.
Mikhail!
Good people!
He is dead!
Mikhail!
Arise!
Don't bother!
Get up!
What are you saying father,
Maria is innocent.
Don't you see,
her son is coming.
Don't you dare take him from me.
Who has said it?
Who?
That a brother forgets his own brother
is the blackest of lies.
It can't be.
A cursed hand has killed one of them,
and now it wants to kill the other.
The VYBORG SIDE
The profoundly realistic acting
of Natalya Ushviy
has conquered the hearts of millions.
Here she is, the washerwoman.
Dear Dunechka, Rejoice.
We are taking part in a great event.
- What is it?
- Read.
Drink!
Drink!
Tell me what I must do...
where I must go...
and if you tell me the truth
- I'll go wherever you want.
- Be quiet!
Your number is 16.
They'll call it.
Drink! Let's toast the health of those
who wish to live as heroes.
Get back!
In the name of the Soviet, get back!
Judas!
Throw it away!
No, you can't take it!
Why?
Why?
To the wife of a soldier
Evdokia, life suggests a
clear objective to be pursued.
My head is burning!
People, have pity.
Don't deceive me.
I've been deceived all my life.
You!
What did you say?
Say it here!
Say it in front of everyone.
I have stolen...
I cursed the Soviet power
but it has forgiven me.
When ever...
When ever have we seen such a thing
You have railed against Lenin,
but Lenin has given me...
a house.
The unforgettable images
of the heroes of the Second World War...
Polina Kostiuk
protagonist of Vanda Vassileskaya's
The Rainbow.
From the pages of the book
she enters the screen
and from the screen,
she comes to life.
With a firm step she crossed
country after country.
Infusing courage
and instilling hate
for the bloodthirsty fascism.
The images of Polina Kostiuk
became a real help
to the heroes at the front.
After having seen this film,
the Soviet fighters wrote:
I promise you we will fight the enemy!
So that no fascists
will leave our land alive!
Our Ukraine will again be free!
Letters were sent...
to Polina Kostiuk
These touching letters were
very dear to Natalya Mikhailovna
Often she received them
when she was already at the front.
In memory of a show by Natalya Ushviy
for soldiers at the front
a soldier gave to the museum
this model.
In the art of Natalya Ushviy
work on the profound revelation
of the person portrayed
draws attention
to every artistic detail.
The History Museum
Here each artist
hears the voice of ancient history.
300 years ago.
In 'The Fire of Anger' she plays
the wife of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
symbol of power of the Ukrainian hetman.
Black clouds gather over the Ukraine
I won't leave the mace.
Get out, fools!
The wife of Bohdan is here.
Listen, Ukraine is seething.
It's fury is raised.
It will never burn!
Here it is. The sacred mace.
Take it to
the free Cossacks of Zaporoshye
that they care for it
like the apple of their eye.
But the greatest joy for the actress
is to play contemporary heroines.
THE VIBURNUM GROVE
Natalka Kovshak doesn't give
a moment's peace to Romaniuk
played by Yuri Shumsky.
Come here
- Mummy
- Don't bother me!
Come here,
before I burst with rage!
- Tell her!
- Why don't you.
Tell me.
I want to know right now.
Who are Yavdokha Mironenko
and Maria Bereza?
Tell me!
Where did their husbands fall and where
are they buried. And where were you?
Hiding in the river grass,
whilst the Red Army fought!
Me, here...
Here is the map...
Go straight away
in the direction of the kolkhoz.
Then we'll talk about it,
calmly.
Beaurocrats!
Without me!
Good day!
- Nikola, why are you so smug?
- I'm unwell.
Mum, let me introduce
Comrade Verbach, the painter.
Pleased to meet you.
Comrade Verbach
will stay with us, to paint.
On the contrary.
I won't stay with you.
Why not? Perhaps my house is too small
or my cooking isn't good enough.
But I need peace and quiet,
not all this carry on.
What carry on?
Come, Comrade painter,
stay with us.
With us, it will be fine.
Don't listen to the beaurocrats...
Don't listen...
Blast!
- I've forgotten the word.
- What word?
That which the sailors and secretaries
used yesterday at the assembly.
I don't remember.
That's it...
Opportunists!
Opportunists!
Natalka, I must bring you to the party,
to explain two things.
Don't be offended.
We are just a couple of gossips.
And everyone loves a gossip!
Natalya Ushviy has acted
in all the works
of our famous Ukrainian playwright
Alexandr Korneychuk.
She has been the heroine
in many works by Soviet playwrights.
Her profound knowledge of life...
Love for the heroic
daily life of soviet man,
has allowed her to create
the most convincing and artistically
excellent roles.
Her wide repertoire covers
the most diverse of roles.
She has portrayed the ruthless greed
of Marina Mnishek in Boris Godunov.
Get up!
What do you think, imposter?
To be able to conquer,
by prostrating yourself,
the vulnerable heart
of a sweet, young girl?
You're mistaken!
And held most dear, the romantic
and heroic character of Commissar Oxana
from The Destruction of the Squadron.
- I want to sleep!
- Get up, d'you hear me?
Leave me alone.
I want to sleep.
You're a sailor.
The revolution awaits you.
Get up!
Even that, would rest a bit...
if it was as tired, as I am.
How can...
you rest, revolution...
if you, his sailor sleeps,
and is not on guard.
With much compassion the actress
tells of the destiny of Yulia...
in a drama written by Ostrovsky
But...
But how...
Mikheevna!
The shrew Beatrice,
in Shakespeare's comedy...
Has the master
returned from the war?
Sharing the suffering of Marusia,
protagonist of another play
Little birds,
take to him my news,
Tell him of my home sickness,
of my distress.
Home sickness has overcome me,
even unto death.
With her Filomena Merturano,
Ushviy protests strongly
against the hypocrisy
of bourgeois society.
My children!
For 25 years,
I've thought only of my children...
I've raised you...
Seen you grow into adulthood...
She has conferred her profoundly
tragic tones to Gorky's Sofia.
My God!
How terrible is life,
and the death of life.
Why?
So much pain in the eyes of Anfisa,
a character from Ugryum River.
God!
Glafira
Polina Ivanova Kruchinina
a character from Ostrovsky's comedy
Guilty Without Guilt
This classic role has been portrayed by the
most famous actresses in Russian theatre.
Kruchinina embodies a brilliant success
for the Ukrainian actress,
and the staging was the most notable
of the works produced at the theatre
dedicated to Ivan Franko.
Other leading actors in the play
Evgeni Ponomarenko and Petronia Lupenko.
- Come in!
- Polina Ivanovna!
- Why are you leaving?
- You are very kind, Nil Platonovich.
The play is over, I can't.
We can't let you leave.
Nina Pavlovna!
Would you come in.
Is everything ready?
Polina Ivanovna
Gentlemen!
Here's a toast
to the health of the actress
who has sprinkled vitality
over the moldy stagnation
of our provincial life.
Gentlemen!
Let's drink to a rare talent...
and a fine woman,
Polina Ivanovna.
And we drink to a fine actress.
Gentlemen!
I must share this honour,
with my companions.
I propose a toast.
To all who work in the arts,
To all those
who work in this noble field,
without distinction
of role or talent.
Finally they'll drink
even to my health.
Now...
Nil Platonovich, I must go.
No! But why?
No, you can't.
A new toast!
I want only
to give voice to my heart.
Do me this pleasure,
I would be delighted to listen.
As the others, I hope.
Gentlemen!
You've allowed me to speak,
so please don't interrupt.
- Speak!
- Please!
Gentlemen!
I propose a toast,
to mothers,
who abandon their own children!
But what's he saying?
It's him...
Him...
The great tradition
of socialist art,
and noble simplicity,
Natalya Mikhailovna learnt
from the great masters of the theatre.
Zenkovechaya,
Saksagansky,
Stanislavsky,
Krapivnitsky
Schepkin.
The simple seamstress
becomes head of the company.
At school, teaching the children
the poetry of Pushkin and Shevchenko.
After her first tentative steps,
long ago in the city of Zolotonosha,
begins her artistic quest.
A long forgotten film
P. K. P.
Her first appearance on the screen.
Galia Dombrovskaya, personal secretary
and lover of the head of
the 2nd Department of Counter espionage.
Everything is ready, Galia.
Prepare their pink tickets.
They will be sent to the Ukraine for
clandestine Bolshevik activity.
Film: I LOVE YOU
The diverting figure of Steha
in the film Nazar Stodolia.
You want me to go
to the cemetery alone, now?
I'll go even to the old restaurant.
What will you bet?
My musicians.
And you?
Me? Three buckets of plum brandy.
Three pieces of bacon and a flat cake.
The distinguished artist of the USSR
pays great attention
to amateur drama clubs.
Here will blossom the talent
of a future Zenkovskaya.
That sound!
How sweet.
It tears at my heart.
And entrances me...
She has fine friends,
Natalya Mikhailovna
That famous worker of the great
kolkhoz harvests, Elena Semenievna Khopra
invites to the inauguration of
a new house, her favourite actress,
applauded many times.
To commemorate the occasion,
they plant a tree.
That will grow in great happiness!
That will be generously fruitful!
And surrounding it, peace.
An important stage on
the artistic road of Natalya Ushviy:
already four decades of her passionate
and enthusiastic art,
faithful to the party,
serving the people,
urging them on to new victories.
Here, the theatre
dedicated to Ivan Franko
where the actress has worked
so many years, cannot contain
the many friends of the actress.
Addressing a greeting,
a director of the theatre,
with representatives of other theatres,
arrived from Moscow, Riga,
from Georgia.
Most cordial are the words of thanks,
addressed to the actress
of stage and screen.
Publicly active
in the quest for peace.
A hundred roles played,
a heroic and brilliant artistic career.
Allow me, dear friends...
I'd like to promise my country
that even in the future, I will work
as an artist must work
in the Ukraine,
in this country
of enormous artistic growth.
I will never tire,
and I'd like to thank you all.
A marvelous moment!
A unique moment!
The soviets have discovered
the road to the stars
I dream of playing the mother
of an astronaut.
I tell you that with all my heart,
with all my soul.
Peace!
For ever, peace!
We dedicate to peace,
our strength and our actions.
The End
Subtitles: Corvusalbus
NATALYA USHVIY
Scenario:
Yuri Martich
Director:
Sergei Parajanov
Director of Photography: V Tishkovez
Art Director: M Gantman
Sound: G Salov
Narrator: A Reshetnikov
This documentary was commissioned
by the Kiev Television Studios.
Like the waters of our Dniepr river,
clear and transparent
is the art of
Natalya Ushviy.
The great October revolution opens,
for the daughter of a poor farmer,
the doors to
the splendid world of art.
The enthusiastic art of
the famous Ukrainian actress
is loved by Soviet audiences
and is well known
outside of our land.
That which was
for many of us already History,
was for the young Natalya Ushviy
already life.
During the great civil war, thousands of
valiant sons and daughters of the people
because creators of
a new socialist culture.
From the box of the Kiev Theatre
dedicated to Taras Shevchenko, the
passionate poetry of the great actress
exhorts the revolutionaries
to new victories.
Listen!
And then tell our children
so they will know
and pass it on to their children,
with what harshness the Cossacks
have punished the Poles,
guilty of not being able to govern well.
In designing the image
of the heroic mother
for the monument
to the great poet Kharkov
the sculptor was inspired
by the features of the great actress.
Let there be such a son
and such a mother
and such people on the Earth.
In the film of the life of
Taras Shevchenko, Natalya Ushviy played
the sister of the poet.
I tell you that you must provide!
Take it, have pity, take it.
You have money?
Not even a penny.
I swear in Christ's name.
Begone!
- Don't ruin me. I beg of you!
- Begone now!
Good Sir...
Irina!
Don't you recognise me?
My sister...
Taras!
My brother!
The bleeding heart
of a simple woman,
exploited by the bosses
in the world of spectacle.
STOLEN HAPPINESS
with Natalya Ushviy and Amvrosi Buchma
in the lead roles
Anna...
Anna...
That policeman...
That Mikhail...
What do you want with him?
I know as a girl you were in love
with him and you know it too.
And so what?
Nothing.
But why cry?
Why break my heart?
Because mine is in pieces.
Anna...
But don't...
Don't you love me even a bit?
No.
Have you never loved me?
No!
Couldn't you at least
make an effort
to live with me as before?
Oh, no...
I'm lost.
Lord, Thy will be done.
Lord, why have you punished me so.
What have I done to you?
Don't blame me.
You know it's not my fault.
You know very well,
they forced me to marry you.
Until they used force...
I was a faithful wife.
Even if I didn't love you.
But now...
I don't have the strength.
Yes, look, I...
I understand you...
I...
The unhappy destiny of Anna
is inspired by the tragic events
in the life of the protagonist
of the film EARTH
based on a story by Olga Kobylyanskaya.
Earth!
Our people call it Mother.
But then it had become
a wicked stepmother
and because of it, many died,
in sweat and in blood.
For a piece of land,
one would kill even one's brothers.
Mikhail!
Good people!
He is dead!
Mikhail!
Arise!
Don't bother!
Get up!
What are you saying father,
Maria is innocent.
Don't you see,
her son is coming.
Don't you dare take him from me.
Who has said it?
Who?
That a brother forgets his own brother
is the blackest of lies.
It can't be.
A cursed hand has killed one of them,
and now it wants to kill the other.
The VYBORG SIDE
The profoundly realistic acting
of Natalya Ushviy
has conquered the hearts of millions.
Here she is, the washerwoman.
Dear Dunechka, Rejoice.
We are taking part in a great event.
- What is it?
- Read.
Drink!
Drink!
Tell me what I must do...
where I must go...
and if you tell me the truth
- I'll go wherever you want.
- Be quiet!
Your number is 16.
They'll call it.
Drink! Let's toast the health of those
who wish to live as heroes.
Get back!
In the name of the Soviet, get back!
Judas!
Throw it away!
No, you can't take it!
Why?
Why?
To the wife of a soldier
Evdokia, life suggests a
clear objective to be pursued.
My head is burning!
People, have pity.
Don't deceive me.
I've been deceived all my life.
You!
What did you say?
Say it here!
Say it in front of everyone.
I have stolen...
I cursed the Soviet power
but it has forgiven me.
When ever...
When ever have we seen such a thing
You have railed against Lenin,
but Lenin has given me...
a house.
The unforgettable images
of the heroes of the Second World War...
Polina Kostiuk
protagonist of Vanda Vassileskaya's
The Rainbow.
From the pages of the book
she enters the screen
and from the screen,
she comes to life.
With a firm step she crossed
country after country.
Infusing courage
and instilling hate
for the bloodthirsty fascism.
The images of Polina Kostiuk
became a real help
to the heroes at the front.
After having seen this film,
the Soviet fighters wrote:
I promise you we will fight the enemy!
So that no fascists
will leave our land alive!
Our Ukraine will again be free!
Letters were sent...
to Polina Kostiuk
These touching letters were
very dear to Natalya Mikhailovna
Often she received them
when she was already at the front.
In memory of a show by Natalya Ushviy
for soldiers at the front
a soldier gave to the museum
this model.
In the art of Natalya Ushviy
work on the profound revelation
of the person portrayed
draws attention
to every artistic detail.
The History Museum
Here each artist
hears the voice of ancient history.
300 years ago.
In 'The Fire of Anger' she plays
the wife of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
symbol of power of the Ukrainian hetman.
Black clouds gather over the Ukraine
I won't leave the mace.
Get out, fools!
The wife of Bohdan is here.
Listen, Ukraine is seething.
It's fury is raised.
It will never burn!
Here it is. The sacred mace.
Take it to
the free Cossacks of Zaporoshye
that they care for it
like the apple of their eye.
But the greatest joy for the actress
is to play contemporary heroines.
THE VIBURNUM GROVE
Natalka Kovshak doesn't give
a moment's peace to Romaniuk
played by Yuri Shumsky.
Come here
- Mummy
- Don't bother me!
Come here,
before I burst with rage!
- Tell her!
- Why don't you.
Tell me.
I want to know right now.
Who are Yavdokha Mironenko
and Maria Bereza?
Tell me!
Where did their husbands fall and where
are they buried. And where were you?
Hiding in the river grass,
whilst the Red Army fought!
Me, here...
Here is the map...
Go straight away
in the direction of the kolkhoz.
Then we'll talk about it,
calmly.
Beaurocrats!
Without me!
Good day!
- Nikola, why are you so smug?
- I'm unwell.
Mum, let me introduce
Comrade Verbach, the painter.
Pleased to meet you.
Comrade Verbach
will stay with us, to paint.
On the contrary.
I won't stay with you.
Why not? Perhaps my house is too small
or my cooking isn't good enough.
But I need peace and quiet,
not all this carry on.
What carry on?
Come, Comrade painter,
stay with us.
With us, it will be fine.
Don't listen to the beaurocrats...
Don't listen...
Blast!
- I've forgotten the word.
- What word?
That which the sailors and secretaries
used yesterday at the assembly.
I don't remember.
That's it...
Opportunists!
Opportunists!
Natalka, I must bring you to the party,
to explain two things.
Don't be offended.
We are just a couple of gossips.
And everyone loves a gossip!
Natalya Ushviy has acted
in all the works
of our famous Ukrainian playwright
Alexandr Korneychuk.
She has been the heroine
in many works by Soviet playwrights.
Her profound knowledge of life...
Love for the heroic
daily life of soviet man,
has allowed her to create
the most convincing and artistically
excellent roles.
Her wide repertoire covers
the most diverse of roles.
She has portrayed the ruthless greed
of Marina Mnishek in Boris Godunov.
Get up!
What do you think, imposter?
To be able to conquer,
by prostrating yourself,
the vulnerable heart
of a sweet, young girl?
You're mistaken!
And held most dear, the romantic
and heroic character of Commissar Oxana
from The Destruction of the Squadron.
- I want to sleep!
- Get up, d'you hear me?
Leave me alone.
I want to sleep.
You're a sailor.
The revolution awaits you.
Get up!
Even that, would rest a bit...
if it was as tired, as I am.
How can...
you rest, revolution...
if you, his sailor sleeps,
and is not on guard.
With much compassion the actress
tells of the destiny of Yulia...
in a drama written by Ostrovsky
But...
But how...
Mikheevna!
The shrew Beatrice,
in Shakespeare's comedy...
Has the master
returned from the war?
Sharing the suffering of Marusia,
protagonist of another play
Little birds,
take to him my news,
Tell him of my home sickness,
of my distress.
Home sickness has overcome me,
even unto death.
With her Filomena Merturano,
Ushviy protests strongly
against the hypocrisy
of bourgeois society.
My children!
For 25 years,
I've thought only of my children...
I've raised you...
Seen you grow into adulthood...
She has conferred her profoundly
tragic tones to Gorky's Sofia.
My God!
How terrible is life,
and the death of life.
Why?
So much pain in the eyes of Anfisa,
a character from Ugryum River.
God!
Glafira
Polina Ivanova Kruchinina
a character from Ostrovsky's comedy
Guilty Without Guilt
This classic role has been portrayed by the
most famous actresses in Russian theatre.
Kruchinina embodies a brilliant success
for the Ukrainian actress,
and the staging was the most notable
of the works produced at the theatre
dedicated to Ivan Franko.
Other leading actors in the play
Evgeni Ponomarenko and Petronia Lupenko.
- Come in!
- Polina Ivanovna!
- Why are you leaving?
- You are very kind, Nil Platonovich.
The play is over, I can't.
We can't let you leave.
Nina Pavlovna!
Would you come in.
Is everything ready?
Polina Ivanovna
Gentlemen!
Here's a toast
to the health of the actress
who has sprinkled vitality
over the moldy stagnation
of our provincial life.
Gentlemen!
Let's drink to a rare talent...
and a fine woman,
Polina Ivanovna.
And we drink to a fine actress.
Gentlemen!
I must share this honour,
with my companions.
I propose a toast.
To all who work in the arts,
To all those
who work in this noble field,
without distinction
of role or talent.
Finally they'll drink
even to my health.
Now...
Nil Platonovich, I must go.
No! But why?
No, you can't.
A new toast!
I want only
to give voice to my heart.
Do me this pleasure,
I would be delighted to listen.
As the others, I hope.
Gentlemen!
You've allowed me to speak,
so please don't interrupt.
- Speak!
- Please!
Gentlemen!
I propose a toast,
to mothers,
who abandon their own children!
But what's he saying?
It's him...
Him...
The great tradition
of socialist art,
and noble simplicity,
Natalya Mikhailovna learnt
from the great masters of the theatre.
Zenkovechaya,
Saksagansky,
Stanislavsky,
Krapivnitsky
Schepkin.
The simple seamstress
becomes head of the company.
At school, teaching the children
the poetry of Pushkin and Shevchenko.
After her first tentative steps,
long ago in the city of Zolotonosha,
begins her artistic quest.
A long forgotten film
P. K. P.
Her first appearance on the screen.
Galia Dombrovskaya, personal secretary
and lover of the head of
the 2nd Department of Counter espionage.
Everything is ready, Galia.
Prepare their pink tickets.
They will be sent to the Ukraine for
clandestine Bolshevik activity.
Film: I LOVE YOU
The diverting figure of Steha
in the film Nazar Stodolia.
You want me to go
to the cemetery alone, now?
I'll go even to the old restaurant.
What will you bet?
My musicians.
And you?
Me? Three buckets of plum brandy.
Three pieces of bacon and a flat cake.
The distinguished artist of the USSR
pays great attention
to amateur drama clubs.
Here will blossom the talent
of a future Zenkovskaya.
That sound!
How sweet.
It tears at my heart.
And entrances me...
She has fine friends,
Natalya Mikhailovna
That famous worker of the great
kolkhoz harvests, Elena Semenievna Khopra
invites to the inauguration of
a new house, her favourite actress,
applauded many times.
To commemorate the occasion,
they plant a tree.
That will grow in great happiness!
That will be generously fruitful!
And surrounding it, peace.
An important stage on
the artistic road of Natalya Ushviy:
already four decades of her passionate
and enthusiastic art,
faithful to the party,
serving the people,
urging them on to new victories.
Here, the theatre
dedicated to Ivan Franko
where the actress has worked
so many years, cannot contain
the many friends of the actress.
Addressing a greeting,
a director of the theatre,
with representatives of other theatres,
arrived from Moscow, Riga,
from Georgia.
Most cordial are the words of thanks,
addressed to the actress
of stage and screen.
Publicly active
in the quest for peace.
A hundred roles played,
a heroic and brilliant artistic career.
Allow me, dear friends...
I'd like to promise my country
that even in the future, I will work
as an artist must work
in the Ukraine,
in this country
of enormous artistic growth.
I will never tire,
and I'd like to thank you all.
A marvelous moment!
A unique moment!
The soviets have discovered
the road to the stars
I dream of playing the mother
of an astronaut.
I tell you that with all my heart,
with all my soul.
Peace!
For ever, peace!
We dedicate to peace,
our strength and our actions.
The End
Subtitles: Corvusalbus