Author and Author’s are in the Ukranian Cinema in 1960-70s and the First Half of the 1980s

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to investigate the system of functioning of the Ukrainian auteur cinematography in the 1960-80s, in the difficult Soviet times of the individuality and spirit oppression of the Ukrainian people as a nation in general and it is based on a comprehensive analysis and available scientific datas and sources. The relation of the auteur theory to the Ukrainian cinema of the Soviet period is going to be found out and also to investigate the development of prominent Ukrainian figures in the cinema and the peculiarities of their creative self-expression. Research Methodology. It is based on experiences caused by the problems and phenomena of modern screen art. To solve the set tasks, the following methods have been used: general scientific, analysis and synthesis, as well as philological, textological, structural and comparative, historical methods. The works of art history of the achievements in the Ukrainian and world cinema are being studied. The creative works of outstanding Ukrainian directors, screenwriters, cameramens and actors have been analyzed. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the features and manifestations of the author’s cinema of Ukraine in the 1960–1980s, completely unexplored materials, scientific works have a lot of evidence about the existence of authorship in Ukrainian cinema, therefore the specificity of the art of this period, as well as external factors affecting the directors during the creation of copyright works. The legal system of the period, and the peculiarities of copyright in Soviet times, are analyzed, the influence of political and juridical factors on the manifestation of the author’s theory in Ukrainian cinema as a whole has been clarified. Conclsions. In the course of the study, the prerequisites and reasons for the emergence of the author’s concept of its ethnic and national peculiarity, among the Soviet times traditional canons have been revealed. During the period of poetic cinema, a large number of Ukrainian literature works saw the light. Creativity of directors was more aimed at the development of cinema, Ukrainian folk and spiritual images, rejecting political themes. This approach did not suit the leadership of the Ukrainian SSR, therefore a struggle was declared to the poetic cinematography, because these films did not emphasize the subjective picture of Soviet romanticism.