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Did you know
Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
MoodPlayr · trivia#01
The Downfall of Deities
1988 0h 30m UK
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★5.0TMDB · 3
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Synopsis
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While watching Dovzhenko's Earth a young man imagines himself a painter in a Ukrainian village in the 1930s. All is pastoral idyll until the authorities arrive with Soviet wrath for tradition and religion.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Boryslav Brondukov
Hennadiy Harbuk
Yaroslav Havryliuk
Tetiana Nazarova
Volodymyr Oleksienko
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Andriy Donchyk
- Writers
- Alexander Dovzhenko, Yevhen Hutsalo
- Languages
- Ukrainian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Andriy Donchyk directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Soviet Union. Dialogue in Ukrainian.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 30-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 238 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Boryslav Brondukov and Hennadiy Harbuk and Yaroslav Havryliuk carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt5298586 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 3 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 30 min · 0h 30m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- UK
Also by
Andriy Donchyk
Production companies
Who made it
Dovzhenko Film Studios
SU
Key crew
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- short film
- slavic mythology
- ukrainian soviet socialist republic (ussr)
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1988-03-01
Also known as
International titles
- Zahybel bohivUA
