On March 13, at 1:00 p.m., the National Museum “Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor” will host a screening of the documentary film “Olherd Bochkovskyi. The spark of the burning fire of national consciousness is unquenchable.”
The screening will be attended by members of the creative team – screenwriter and director Hryhoriy Rudenko and actor Artem Vilbik, who played Olherd Bochkovskyi.
We are rediscovering the forgotten names of prominent Ukrainians! Olgerd Ippolit Bochkovskyi (1884-1939) was a Ukrainian sociologist, ethnologist, political scientist and diplomat. Despite his unusual name, he was born in Ukraine, although he fully realized his Ukrainian identity only in exile in Prague. As a scientist, he created a theory of the emergence and development of nations that was several decades ahead of classical studies of nation-building; as an activist – during the Holodomor in 1933, he headed the Committee for Aid to the Starving in Ukraine (Prague). He was one of the few “men of truth” in the West who openly wrote about the catastrophic situation of Ukrainians in 1932-33 and called on Europe to intervene.
The tape “Olherd Bochkovskyi. An inextinguishable spark of the burning fire of national consciousness” was created by the public organization “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” with the financial support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. The TV premiere took place on the TV channel Espreso.TV
