Documents of the Era (1928)

Overview

Unique chronically documentary due to some rare footage with the activists of the Ukrainian revolution: Hermann von Eichhorn, the supreme commander of the German troops, walks along Kyiv railway station shortly before his assassination, hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky sets a generous table for his allies, Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Symon Petliura freeze in the January frost near the St. Sophia's Cathedral, Mikhail Muravyov's units pass through Kyiv, Christian Rakovsky greets the Red Army soldiers in Kharkiv, the People's Commissar for Education and the proponent of Ukrainisation of the 1920s Mykola Skrypnyk speaks from a rostrum.

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