Toloka

Toloka — Plot

There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.

• Release date
• August 20, 2020
• Runtime
• 110 min
• Genres
• History
• Director
• Mykhailo Illienko

Toloka — Cast

Ivanna Illienko Kateryna Dmytro Linartovych Ivan Bohdan Beniuk Lomaka Serhii Romaniuk Brigadier Dmytro Rybalevskyi Vasyl Oleh Prymohenov General Vasyl Kukharskyi Myroslav Hai