Here are several quotations from the movie:
Soon, the artist is arrested and the local people are forced to destroy the icons. To make the icon vivid, the participants of the Supper are taken from the local people. Under suppression of religion, a brave artist intends to create the icon of the Lord’s Supper. What do you know about life in Soviet Ukraine? This movie shows how art, freedom, and religion were suppressed by the Soviet regime. The lack of subtitles isn’t a problem as you can easily understand everything through music and video. There you can get acquainted with folk songs, Carpathian nature, and the Hutsul dialect of the Ukrainian language. The movie is filled with Ukrainian national traditions : the burying and the wedding ceremonies, Christmas celebrations, and magic rituals. He gets married, works hard, and tries to overcome his grief this way. For a long time the hero is depressed, but later, he decides he should somehow find a way to keep on living. Have you ever thought about the alternative scenarios of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”? “Тіні забутих предків”is the Ukrainian answer on how Romeo could probably survive after the death of Juliet. Don’t mind that the title on Youtube is in Russian, since the film is completely in Ukrainian.
