Announcement: Movie screenig "The Guide" ("Povodyr"), Oct 18

Join us on the 18th of October for the screening of a movie  “The Guide” (“Povodyr”). It is a 2014 Ukrainian drama movie directed by Oles Sanin. The movie focuses around a young boy, Peter Shamrock, who serves as the guide of a blind bard (kobzar) in Soviet Ukraine.

📆 October 18, Friday  
🕝 19:00 (please come approximately 15 minutes before the event start) 
📍 Rämistrasse 101, 8006 Zürich 
🏛️ Main building of ETH Zurich, auditorium HG F1 
🆓 Entrance free of charge (voluntary cash contributions are possible during the event) 
🗣️ Language: Ukrainian, subtitles: English

Movie summary: Set during the early 1930s in Soviet Ukraine, American engineer Michael Shamrock arrives in Kharkiv with his ten-year-old son, Peter to help "build socialism". He falls in love with an actress Olga, of whom she has another admirer, Commissar Vladimir. However, Michael gets his hands onto secret documents about a planned mass seizure of food by the Soviets. As a result, he is killed whilst boarding a train. Peter then escapes his father's killers by hiding into the car of another train. Peter is then saved by a blind bard (kobzar) named Ivan Kocherga. With no other chance to survive in a foreign land, Peter becomes Ivan's guide. Meanwhile, Vladimir dedicates himself to find Peter.

The screening is organized by the Ukrainian Association of Students and Academics in Zurich (UASAZ).

Photographs will be taken at this event. If you do not want to be shown in published photos, please, contact us.