Chervona Ruta (film)
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| Directed by | Roman Oleksiv |
| Produced by | Roman Oleksiv |
| Written by | Miroslav Skochilyas |
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Sofia Rotaru Vasyl Zinkevych |
| Music by | , Volodymyr Ivasyuk (also lyricist), Levko Dutkovsky, Eduard Kolmanovsky, Don Backy, , Myroslav Skoryk |
| Distributed by | Ukrtelefilm |
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45 minutes |
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USSR Ukrainian SSR |
| Language | versions in Ukrainian Russian |
Chervona Ruta is a 1971 Soviet Ukrainian musical film written by Miroslav Skochilyas and directed by Roman Oleksiv, starring Sofia Rotaru and Vasyl Zinkevych alongside popular Soviet Ukrainian ensembles. One of the first modern Soviet musical films, and the first modern Ukrainian musical filmed in Bukovina and the Carpathian mountains in the Ukrainian SSR, Chervona Ruta features short dialogues combined with legendary pop-folk songs in the Ukrainian language and characteristic Western Ukraine dances in modern pop choreography. The film was released in both a Ukrainian and a Russian language version, though in both versions all but one of the songs are in Ukrainian.
Translated from the Ukrainian: Червона рута — "Chervona Ruta" literally means "Red rue". However, the expression became a proper noun in Ukrainian due to popular use. The term derives from the old East Slavic legend, according to which a girl who finds a red colored rue (which are normally yellow) on Ivan Kupala Day, will be happy in love.
Oksana (played by Sofia Rotaru) is a young and beautiful Carpathian girl. On the "Donetsk-Verkhovyna" train she becomes acquainted with a young miner from Donetsk called Boris. The travellers fall in love, but are parted when they arrive at their destination. In the Carpathian mountains their paths diverge, but Boris (played by Vasyl Zinkevych, soloist of the instrumental band "Smerichka") discovers where she is staying. The couple meet again and rekindle their love. Their friends invite them to perform in a concert for vacationers at a mountain resort, where they sing about their feelings for each other.
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