Film Screening: The Guide (2014, Ukraine)

Close your eyes. Watch with your heart. The Guide. Inspired by real life events
October 25, 2023
6:00PM - 9:00PM
Journalism Building 360

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2023-10-25 18:00:00 2023-10-25 21:00:00 Film Screening: The Guide (2014, Ukraine) Join the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies for a screening of The Guide (2014) as part of the Stand With Ukraine Through Film Initiative. Professor Marianna Klochko (Sociology, Ohio State Marion) will provide background information on kobzars and lead a post-film Q&A featuring actor Anton Sviatoslav Greene. Film Synopsis: Early 1930s. Peter is a ten-year-old boy in the midst of turbulent Soviet Ukraine. His father, an American engineer, is killed for obtaining secret documents about the repressions, which now are hidden in Peter’s book. The boy flees from the police with a blind kobzar (Ukrainian folk minstrel), Ivan Kocherga. Ivan does everything to help his young guide to grow up and survive with a kind and clear soul that will not be hardened by what his eyes have seen. He tells his young guide elaborate stories that make him believe there can be a different reality from what he sees around him. We are challenged to admit the blind kobzar may see the world with greater clarity than those with perfect eyes.  Actor Biography: Anton Sviatoslav Greene is a junior at the University of Michigan studying Political Science and Jazz Saxophone. He is currently conducting research with Kseniya Yurtayeva, a visiting scholar at UofM from the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. He has interned for Congressman Seth Moulton in his District Office in Salem, Massachusetts. In relation to his role as Peter Shamrock in The Guide/Povodyr, Greene has conducted interviews with many local and international news organizations, including Good Morning America. Greene is a jazz multi-instrumentalist performing mainly on tenor saxophone. He has played gigs in Ukraine, Italy, and the US. Greene has also worked in management for the Perugia Music Fest in Italy (2019) and the Vivace Music Festival in North Carolina (2021, 2022). Language: Ukrainian with English subtitles  If you have any questions about accessibility or wish to request accommodations, please contact us at cseees@osu.edu. Typically, a two weeks' notice will allow us to provide access. Journalism Building 360 America/New_York public

Join the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies for a screening of The Guide (2014) as part of the Stand With Ukraine Through Film Initiative. Professor Marianna Klochko (Sociology, Ohio State Marion) will provide background information on kobzars and lead a post-film Q&A featuring actor Anton Sviatoslav Greene.

Film Synopsis: Early 1930s. Peter is a ten-year-old boy in the midst of turbulent Soviet Ukraine. His father, an American engineer, is killed for obtaining secret documents about the repressions, which now are hidden in Peter’s book. The boy flees from the police with a blind kobzar (Ukrainian folk minstrel), Ivan Kocherga. Ivan does everything to help his young guide to grow up and survive with a kind and clear soul that will not be hardened by what his eyes have seen. He tells his young guide elaborate stories that make him believe there can be a different reality from what he sees around him. We are challenged to admit the blind kobzar may see the world with greater clarity than those with perfect eyes. 

Actor Biography: Anton Sviatoslav Greene is a junior at the University of Michigan studying Political Science and Jazz Saxophone. He is currently conducting research with Kseniya Yurtayeva, a visiting scholar at UofM from the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. He has interned for Congressman Seth Moulton in his District Office in Salem, Massachusetts. In relation to his role as Peter Shamrock in The Guide/Povodyr, Greene has conducted interviews with many local and international news organizations, including Good Morning America. Greene is a jazz multi-instrumentalist performing mainly on tenor saxophone. He has played gigs in Ukraine, Italy, and the US. Greene has also worked in management for the Perugia Music Fest in Italy (2019) and the Vivace Music Festival in North Carolina (2021, 2022).

Language: Ukrainian with English subtitles 

If you have any questions about accessibility or wish to request accommodations, please contact us at cseees@osu.edu. Typically, a two weeks' notice will allow us to provide access.