The non-governmental organization “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” has started work on writing the script for the full-length feature film “Vincenz”. The project is implemented with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
Work has already begun on creating the script for the feature film-biopic “Vincenz”. The film will tell about the author of the unique Hutsul epic “On the High Uplands” Stanisław Vincenz (1888-1971). The work tells about local culture, history and customs. It is compared with “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi and Hnat Hotkevich’s works about Opryshki.
The fate of Stanisław Vincenz is extremely cinematic – the grandson of an oil tycoon, a Pole of French origin, a student of Sigmund Freud, he lives on the edge of the world in a Hutsul hut and reads Homer every day. Vincenz writes his own Verkhovyna “Iliad and Odyssey”, and then he himself, like Odysseus, is forced to flee from the Carpathians through the Black Mountain Range to Hungary, escaping from the Soviet authorities, accompanied by a molfar. In the last years of his life in Lausanne, Switzerland, Vincenz saves the Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz from suicide, and also hosts brilliant European intellectuals of the 20th century in his “Hutsul house” in La Combe.
For several years now, the NGO “Demforum” has been paying attention to the legacy of Stanisław Vincenz. Now, thanks to the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, it became possible to screen the story of the ambassador of Hutsul region in a co-production with Poland.
Ukrainian playwright, author of the script of the film “Cyborgs” (2017 “Golden Dziga” laureate) Nataliya Vorozhbyt and screenwriter Maksym Kurochkin are working on the project. In the future, the film “Vincenz” will be shot based on the script, which should become a powerful promotion of the Ukrainian Carpathians as a destination for investment and tourism.
The UAH 390,000 required to implement the project was allocated by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
The Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is a state institution established in 2017, on the basis of the relevant Law of Ukraine, with the aim of promoting the development of national culture and art in the state, ensuring favorable conditions for the development of the intellectual and spiritual potential of the individual and society, wide access of citizens to the national cultural heritage, support of cultural diversity and integration of Ukrainian culture into the world cultural space. According to current legislation, the activities of the fund are directed and coordinated by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
