Interrupted Flight. Ukrainian Cinema of the All-Ukrainian Photo and Film Administration Era

Abstract

Larysa Briukhovetska’s monograph “Interrupted Flight. Ukrainian Cinema of the VUFKU Era: An Attempt at Reconstruction”, based on documentary sources – 1920s periodicals, archives and memoirs of participants in the film process – reconstructs an almost unknown but extremely rich and fruitful period in the history of Ukrainian cinema, namely the activities of the All-Ukrainian Photo and Film Administration under conditions of autonomous management. This research is one of the first in Ukraine to comprehensively cover not only cinematic art but also the development of the film industry and film distribution, as well as the defence of national interests by the VUFCU board, which helped cinema to create conditions for successful development.