This film is about the life and work of the Ukrainian politician, journalist, publicist and National Hero of Ukraine Vyacheslav Chornovil.

As the director and screenwriter of the film, Volodymyr Onyshchenko, reported, the main core of the film was the Ukrainian folk tale "The Stone State," with whose plot collisions the fate of Vyacheslav Chornovil is metaphorically correlated, which is why the film was called "The One Who Awakened the Stone State." According to Onyshchenko, attention in the film is focused on unique chronicle footage of the People's Movement that was never shown on television: "Television mostly uses some official footage. For example, a speech from the parliamentary rostrum. We show how Chornovil sits on a chair or at a table, how he smiles, to whom he turns. In a word — live footage. Thanks to this, we have moved away from documentary style. The film turned out emotional, partly subjective," noted Onyshchenko.

The film was shot in various corners of Ukraine, in particular, in Kyiv, Mariupol, Donetsk, Lviv, that is, in those cities with which the fate of Vyacheslav Chornovil is connected. The episodes feature Serhiy Romanyuk, Yevhen Paperny and other well-known Ukrainian actors. The director and screenwriter of the picture is Volodymyr Onyshchenko, known for his feature works "Captain 'Crocus'" (1994), "Object 'J'" (1995); cinematographer — Andriy Danylenko.

We invite journalists to participate in the presentation of the project. See the route schedule below.

Contact phone: 246 47 67/63

Reference: Vyacheslav Chornovil headed the largest party of national-democratic orientation — the People's Movement of Ukraine. From the time of the Movement's founding in the autumn of 1989, he was one of its leaders, and with the transformation of the Movement into a party in December 1992, he became its chairman. From 1990 he was elected a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament. Vyacheslav Chornovil is the author of a number of books and a well-known publicist. He died tragically in a car accident near Kyiv on March 25, 1999, when his car on the highway crashed into a "KAMAZ" with a trailer.

Dates and route of the presentation from 17.07 to 24.08.2006

East 17. 07– Poltava 18. 07 – Kharkiv 19.07 - Donetsk 20.07 - Chervonoarmiysk, Dmytriv 21.07 – Mariupol

Center and south

24. 07– Dnipropetrovsk 25. 07- Zaporizhzhia 26. 07 - Simferopol 27. 07 - Sevastopol 28. 07 – 29.07 - "Artek", sanatoria "Oreanda", "Dnipro", "Dyulber". 30.07 – Kherson - Mykolaiv

West 07.08 – Ternopil - Ivano-Frankivsk 08. 08 - Uzhhorod 09.08 - Lviv 10. 08- Lutsk, Rivne

Main premiere: Kyiv – August 21, Cinema House

Those responsible for the presentation: Administrator – Maryna Shevchenko - 8 050 771 33 43 Press secretary – Svitlana Rusyn - 8 067 969 04 78 Project manager – Yuriy Horban 8 050 311 71 81