The Golden Gates

The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko, shot on his diaries. It has his statements about his work, about the role of the artist in society, his plans and sources of inspiration, his artistic style and the peculiarities of his worldview. Used excerpts from his films and documentary footage taken during the director's life, as well as filmed fragments of the unfinished scripts " The Death of the Gods” and “Tsar”.

• Oleksandr DovzhenkoWriter
• Yuliya SolntsevaDirector
• Yuliya SolntsevaWriter
• Valeriy KarenWriter
• Vyacheslav OvchinnikovOriginal Music Composer

• Roman TkachukGod / Peasant
• Mykola HrynkoBishop
• Pyotr ShcherbakovGordei Truba
• Valentina TelichkinaMadonna
• Nikolai GubenkoSoldier Ivan
• Sergey NikonenkoTsar
• Boris SichkinNesmachny
• Sergey BondarchukNarrator (Voice)