{"id":73274,"date":"2017-05-26T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=56693"},"modified":"2017-05-29T13:55:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T10:55:24","slug":"56693-vasil-slipak-film-mif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/56693-vasil-slipak-film-mif","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian filmmakers are about to release a documentary on fallen opera singer turned warfighter Vasyl Slipak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Uqtbdt-b8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH IN ENGLISH<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukrainian-born Vasyl Slipak was an internationally renowned opera singer. He lived and worked in France for 19 years, where he was a soloist at the Paris Opera. Vasyl Slipak possessed a very rare voice, a countertenor. When the Russian military aggression against Ukraine broke out, he volunteered to the frontline. Vasyl Slipak was killed with a large-caliber sniper rifle near Luhanske, Donetsk region, on June 29, 2016. He was fighting in the ranks of the 7<sup>th<\/sup> separate battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe story of Vasyl Slipak is so remarkable that it could have been made up. But fortunately, or unfortunately, it is a true story. It comes as a powerful challenge to us \u2013 feature film directors and documentary filmmakers. Our task now is to present this incredible story to the viewer making it as strong as it was in real life,\u201d said Leonid Kanter, screenwriter, producer and film director of the documentary \u201cMyth\u201d about Vasyl Slipak, the fallen Hero of Ukraine, at a press-briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center. \u201cMyth\u201d was Slipak\u2019s nom de guerre, short name from Mephistopheles, a character of the \u201cFaust\u201d opera and the aria Slipak was performing on world\u2019s top stages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film crew went to the front to talk to Vasyl\u2019s brothers-in-arms, later they headed to France to meet his friends and colleagues. In Lviv, Vasyl\u2019s native city, his brother Orest let them access the family archive and shared his memories of his brother. \u201cOne of the biggest gains in our mutual work is the internationally renowned composer Yevgeniy Galperin,\u201d said cameraman and film director Ivan Yasniy. He is a friend of Vasyl Slipak, and has provided his musical works for the film. Musician and graphic artist Yuriy Zhuravel created animation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Filmmakers engaged Spilnokosht platform <a href=\"https:\/\/biggggidea.com\/project\/-dokumentalnij-film-mif-\/\">to collect funds<\/a> for shooting of the film. Three weeks are left till the end of the campaign. \u201cWe need to collect 20 per cent more. [\u2026] At this stage it is crucial to get active and spread the information as wide as we can as well as join the project, so that we can implement it and it becomes a success,\u201d said Diana Karpenko, co-producer of the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film \u201cMyth\u201d will be released later this year. It will be dubbed and subtitled both for the international and domestic audience, as most of the film comes in French language. The film crew plans to showcase the filmed story of Ukraine\u2019s patriot at international film festivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH IN ENGLISH Ukrainian-born Vasyl Slipak was an internationally renowned opera singer. He lived and worked in France for 19 years, where he was a soloist at the Paris Opera. Vasyl Slipak possessed a very rare voice, a countertenor. When the Russian military aggression against Ukraine broke out, he volunteered to the frontline. 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