We bring to your attention a film adaptation of the work of A.P. Chekhov, namely the stories “The Bishop”, “Princess”, “Holy Night” from the Ukrainian director Arthur Voitetsky, released in 1990. It was the plots of these works that became the basis for the film script for the film “Now the Son of Man Has Become Glorified.” The film was produced by the Kyiv Feature Film Studio named after Alexander Dovzhenko. Filming took place in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Vinnitsa) and next to the church in the village of Dashev, Ilinets district, Vinnitsa region.
The film is based on the story of the last days of the Bishop. Having become seriously ill and realizing that his earthly existence is coming to an end, he plunges into memories. Here his childhood and years of pastoral service are depicted. He feels disconnected from the world, and also lacks simple human communication.
Film crew:
Screenwriter and director: Arthur Voitetsky;
Director of photography: Vyacheslav Rodichenko;
Director: Evgeny Kaminsky;
Costume designer: Alla Shesterenko;
Make-up artists: Alevtina Loseva, Elena Kolonskaya;
Sound engineer: Yuriy Lavrinenko.
Cast:
Bogdan Stupka - bishop;
Valentina Saltovskaya - mother;
Lydia Yezhevskaya - princess;
Afanasy Kochetkov - doctor;
Mikhail Gluzsky - Rev. Father Sysoy;
Vitaly Benedyuk;
Ilya Rybakov;
Natasha Pastushenko;
Inna Kapinos;
Alexander Radko;
In the episodes: Lyudmila Alfimova, Lyubov Bogdan, Natalya Beloshapkina, Natalya Gebdovskaya, Olga Gobzeva, L. Grigorieva, K. Zhmur, Margarita Kosheleva, E. Rodichenko, A. Razumova, A. Taranova, Alicia Omelchuk, Konstantin Artemenko, Artem Kaminsky, Vladimir Alekseenko, Valery Sheptekita and others.
The film uses chants of Orthodox services by composers: Dmitry Bortnyansky, Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Kastalsky, Alexei Lvov, T. Lvovsky and unknown authors, as well as Ukrainian, Russian, Gypsy folk songs. "Elegy" by Jules Massenet is performed by Fyodor Chaliapin.
Location shooting of the film also took place in the village. Levkivtsi, Tulchinsky district, Vinnytsia region (scene in the field where women are reaping and knitting sheaves). There are eyewitnesses to those events. Also, a series of filming took place in the village of Pechora, Tulchinsky district, on the hills on the banks of the Southern Bug next to the church standing on the mountain. In the Voitov church in the Bershad district of the Vinnitsa region, a distribution of vines took place.
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