POETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMAGE OF UKRAINE IN O. DOVZHENKO'S FILM STORY “UKRAINE ON FIRE”

Abstract

The appearance of the central image of Ukraine in the film story “Ukraine on fire” as the dominant character of insubordination and the tragedy of the suffering of the Ukrainian people. The image of Ukraine in O. Dovzhenko's film story “Ukraine on Fire” is an undisguised, tragic truth about the fate of the Ukrainian people during the Great Patriotic War. The years 1941–1942 remained in history as the most difficult hours of the great grief of the war for Ukraine. This is the time when all of Ukraine was occupied by fascists. Oleksandr Dovzhenko watched all these bloody events, it was the war that served as a prerequisite for writing a film story. In these dire and terrible times for Ukrainians, the author admitted that he created it “with fiery pain in his heart and burning suffering for Ukraine, which was in German hands, with painful regret and fear for its fate” (Dovzhenko, 1956: 102). Such methods as hermenevtic interpretation, descriptional, structural are used. The purpose is to discover deep meanings, carved in this film story, due to which stylistic devices author emphasizes the horror of the war.