
Toloka
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.
Top Billed Cast

Ivanna Illienko
Kateryna

Dmytro Linartovych
Ivan

Bohdan Beniuk
Lomaka

Serhii Romaniuk
Brigadier

Dmytro Rybalevskyi
Vasyl
Featured Crew

Oleksandra Bratyshchenko
Line Producer

Mykhailo Illienko
Director

Mariia Kero
Costume Designer

Taras Shevchenko
Author
Mykola Kishchuk
Production Design

Marianna Novikova
Producer

Yurii Hruzynov
Editor
Oleksandr Kryshtalovych
Director of Photography

Roman Adamovych
Production Design

Mykhailo Illienko
Producer

Mykhailo Illienko
Writer

Viktor Maliarenko
Editor