Book Contemporary Ukrainian Screen Adaptations (set of 6 books)
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Stanislaviv in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An ordinary city on the crossroads of "happy Austria", where people live, suffer, fall in love, are fascinated by science and charlatan performances of world-famous illusionists, have fun at balls and carnivals, go to spatser and hide secrets in carved chests of drawers. And against the backdrop of an era that will be increasingly overgrown with myths of an idyllic life for posterity, the fates of two women intertwined as closely as tree trunks in an inseparable bond that allows them neither to live nor to breathe, neither to stay nor to leave.
Book 2. Black Raven. The Remnant
They were called bandits, robbers, thugs, and even in curses, anathemas, it was forbidden to mention their names. To kill the idea for which the rebels sacrificed their young lives in the memory of the subdued masses. Of course, they shot, hanged, burned, and destroyed - but whom? The inscription on their black battle flag reads: "Freedom of Ukraine or Death". They didn't leave the forest even when an alien power reigned around them and there was no hope for liberation. They - the leftovers - chose death.
It was the year 1241. In ancient times, when people were different and the land was more powerful. And at that time, there lived a glorious leader of the free Tukholians, the wise Zakhar Berkut. But where there are heroes, there are always villains. The boyar Tugar Vovk sought power over the rebellious Tukholians. And when he was rebuffed, he cherished revenge in his black heart. A large Mongolian army is sent to the camp, at the behest of the traitor Tugar. And Zakhar Berkut's young son Maksym finds himself in enemy captivity... The battle is approaching. The swords of the Tukholians are sharp and the shields are strong. But their hearts, in which freedom lives, are even stronger. The enemy has come to destroy them. But freedom is indestructible.
Dusty roads, rusty petrol pumps, tired buses, old Khrushchevs... A city left somewhere out of time. Strange people doing strange things. Absurdity - and at the same time the "authenticity" of existence... Herman returns to his childhood town in the steppes of Donbas to find his missing brother and save his business. However, the reality turns out to be shaky, the future is uncertain, and the past evokes too much nostalgia... A lyrical and hard, social and metaphysical, melancholic and realistic story, full of boundless spaces, memories, dreams, dreams, jazz and the spirit of true friendship.
The new story by Volodymyr Rutkivsky, an unsurpassed master of Ukrainian historical children's novels, is dedicated to the heroic and little-known pages of our ancient past. Fifth-grader Vitko Bubnenko miraculously finds himself in the year 1097, where he defends the borders of our land, that is, the land of Rus, together with the famous pre-Ukrainian heroes Ilya Murovets, Oleshko Popovych and Dobrynya.
Book 6: Ivan the Strong. Incredible Adventures
The adventure story by the famous children's writer Oleksandr Havrosh tells about the vivid adventures of the unsurpassed mountain strongman Ivan Syla. The prototype of the story's protagonist was the legendary Transcarpathian hero Ivan Firtsak, who won the title of Czechoslovak and European champion in several sports and travelled halfway around the world performing in the circus, where he won many glorious victories. In 2013, the first Ukrainian children's film in the third millennium, Ivan the Strong, was based on this story, and our publication is illustrated with graphic images from it.