The digitized film of the 1920s Kira Kiralina will be screened this year

Савіна Альона, Любезна Катерина
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18:41, 06 April
The digitized film of the 1920s Kira Kiralina will be screened this year
Image source: Довженко-Центр

The film Kira Kiralina which was shot at the Yalta Film Studio in the early 1920s returned to Ukraine. The premiere of the film is scheduled this year.

A correspondent of Suspilne Crimea reported it on April 6.

“Kira Kiralina is a film adaptation of a novel by a Romanian writer. The action takes place in modern Romania, but actually, it is the ancient Ottoman Balkans. The story is very sad - about a woman who is sold into slavery. Then, her daughter also becomes a slave, because the society lives by feudal cruel laws,” the film critic Arseniy Knyazkov told Suspilne Crimea.

He also told more about the Crimean Tatar star of the time, Hayri Emir-Zade, who starred in the film.

“Hayri Emir-Zade is really a great story that has not yet been studied. He is a Crimean Tatar and was educated somewhere in late 1910 and just found himself in the Soviet Union as a young theatrical talent - he could dance and sing. He was a talented actor, a very charismatic man. Hayri Emir-Zade starred in the adventure film Alim. The film was a hit, but then Emir-Zade played mostly minor roles in films. He expanded his palette because he began to play thieves and villains - very unusual characters for him”, - he said.

Read more: Dovzhenko-Center found a Ukrainian film of 1927, featuring a Crimean Tatar star of the time.

Head of the research and program department at the Dovzhenko National Center, Stanislav Menzelevsky, noted that sometimes the archives do not know that they have Ukrainian films.

"We made an exhibition dedicated to this, we based all the drama of the exhibition on lost films. Contemporary artists, composers, and writers worked with the lost films. Alla Zagaykevych created a sound installation for the film Kira Kiralina", - he said.