2023/12/04 by Ksaverov, Serhii
#Ihor Shevchenko #Mykola Rasheev #Soviet Union #Soviet cinema #Ukraine #Ukrainian cinema #chernukha #film genre #horror #identity #national cinema #perestroika #werewolf
paper · doi:10.17892/app.2023.00017.342
This article offers an introduction to two Ukrainian Soviet films of 1990 that have received little attention from critics and scholars. Oberih / Obereg / Amulet (1990, Soviet Union) by Mykola Rasheev and Chas perevertnia / Chas oborotnia / Werewolf Hour (1990, Soviet Union) by Ihor Shevchenko were both filmed in Soviet Ukraine and have fallen into obscurity. The first part of this article seeks to situate both films in the context of film studies of the late USSR to address reasons why there was such a lack of interest in Ukrainian Soviet cinema at that time. The second part presents both films as culturally specific tales of identity loss in a transitional period.