The film "Shchedryk vs "russian world" reveals the fascinating story of how a visit to a secular concert on January 1, 1919, led Symon Petliura to entrust the conductor Oleksandr Koshyts with the creation of a choir and send it on a world tour to promote Ukrainian culture. By the coincidence of modern history, the film's plot raises several current problems - opposition to Russian cultural expansion and propaganda, issues of cultural diplomacy of Ukraine, the place of Ukrainian cultural products in the world and its struggle for itself.
Speakers of the film were researchers, cultural experts, artists: Tina Peresunko, author of the Shchedryk history study, research associate of the Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies named after M. Hrushevskyi; Kyrylo Stetsenko, Ukrainian violinist, composer, grandson of one of the founders of the UNR Chapel (Kyrylo Stetsenko); Larysa Semenko, head of the department of the Vinnytsia Regional Museum of Local Lore; Ihor Hyrych, doctor of historical sciences, professor; Oleksandr Kucheruk, head of the department of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine; Oleg Mashevskyi, head of the Department of History, KNU named after T. Shevchenko; Oleksandr Tarasenko, conductor, composer, honored artist of Ukraine; Yaroslav Faizulin, director of the Central State Historical Archive; Anatoly Paladiychuk, curator of art projects, collector; Oleksandr Sorochynskyi, a descendant of the chapel singer Leontius Sorochynskyi; Petr Kalina, head of the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the University named after Masaryk (Czech Republic); Rita Kindlerova, research associate of the National Library of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic).
Director: Oleksandr Nazarov
Authors of the scenario: Natalka Ponomariv, Tina Peresunko
Producer: Vyacheslav Ponomaryov
Composer: Oleksandr Klyman
Designer: Konstantin Puzankin
Editor who worked from the frontline: Anton Yehanov
Production: @prostoproduction9008
The following participated in the creation of the film from JSC "NSTU" (Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine):
Lukyan Halkin, executive producer
Alyona Holyakova, project manager