The Ukrainian school of poetic cinema was first defined in an article for the journal “Ekran” by Polish researcher Janusz Gazda in 1970:
“…an unexpected current of poetic cinema emerged. Films appeared whose screen life was very brief—some never reached audiences at all… And yet they exist, expressing a certain state of spirit, an ambition and an aspiration, manifesting a delight in beauty and poetry. They exist like pearls on the ocean floor. They are a marginal phenomenon within normal cinematographic production—but a margin so significant that it deserves attention. All the more so given that we are speaking of a cinema that once produced the works of Dovzhenko.”
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