“Slovo House. Unfinished Novel” is a dramatic story about Ukrainian writers from the era of
the Executed Renaissance who were gathered under the roof of one building and forced to
work for the benefit of the Soviet system. The film depicts how the communist paradise turns into a communist hell.
In 1927, Soviet Ukraine, by order of Stalin, the “Slovo” cooperative house was built in
Kharkiv. The most outstanding Ukrainian writers live in comfortable apartments. All of them
became participants in an experiment aimed at deriving a new type of Soviet writer and
establishing total control over the creative process in order to create a single artistic method of socialist realism. However, not every writer agrees to glorify Stalin’s cult.
Unexpectedly for the residents of the “Slovo” House, an unknown young writer named
Volodymyr Akimov moves in with them. Who is he? No one knows. With his arrival, strange
events begin to happen in the “Slovo” House, events that its walls still remain silent about.
The film will be accompanied by the short opening lecture by Ihor Sukhorukov “Nomadische Boekenplank”, Ukrainian culture enthusiast who will help the viewers explore the context of that period of time in Ukraine.
Location: MACA, Moving Arts Center Amsterdam Ms. van Riemsdijkweg 61, 1033 RC
Amsterdam
Doors open at 18.30
Film starts at19.00
Note: The film will be screened in Ukrainian with English subtitles.
