Losing Identities
Horror Narratives in Two Late Soviet Ukrainian Films
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17892/app.2023.00017.342Keywords:
Mykola Rasheev, Ihor Shevchenko, Ukraine, Soviet Union, Soviet cinema, Ukrainian cinema, perestroika, horror, national cinema, film genre, identity, werewolf, chernukhaAbstract
This article offers an introduction to two Ukrainian Soviet films of 1990 that have received little attention from critics and scholars. Oberih / Obereg / Amulet (1990, Soviet Union) by Mykola Rasheev and Chas perevertnia / Chas oborotnia / Werewolf Hour (1990, Soviet Union) by Ihor Shevchenko were both filmed in Soviet Ukraine and have fallen into obscurity. The first part of this article seeks to situate both films in the context of film studies of the late USSR to address reasons why there was such a lack of interest in Ukrainian Soviet cinema at that time. The second part presents both films as culturally specific tales of identity loss in a transitional period.
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