Arsenal

To mark the 130th birthday of Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, the Ukrainian Institute in Germany invites you to a screening of Dovzhenko's silent film ARSENAL with live music by the British multi-instrumentalist Guy Bartell. Afterwards, film experts Anna Onufrienko and Barbara Wurm will talk about the director, his special film language and his connections to German Expressionism. ARSENAL tells the avant-garde story of one of the most dramatic periods in Ukrainian history, when Ukraine gained its independence from the Russian Empire in 1917, albeit only for a short time. Soldiers returning from the front of the First World War rise up in the Kyiv Arsenal factory, in a pro-Soviet uprising. It is soon put down by the troops of the Ukrainian People's Republic. An event organized by the Ukrainian Institute in Germany in cooperation with the Dovzhenko Centre in Kyiv. (Mariya Zoryk)