Slovo House (2017)

Original title

Будинок «Слово»

Directed by

Taras Tomenko

Genre

documentary film

Country

Ukraine

Runtime

1h 21m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film tells the story of a building in Ukraine that was built as a home for artists and writers. It had modern comforts but was also filled with secret surveillance that harmed the people living there.

historicalsomberclaustrophobicinformativeunsettlingcontemplativeslow-paced

What happens

Slovo House (Ukrainian: «Будинок "Слово"», romanized: Budynok 'Slovo') is a 2017 Ukrainian documentary film directed by Taras Tomenko and written by Lyuba Yakimchuk. The film shows the history of a controversial house designed for Ukrainian cultural figures, one that had many amenities, but also extensive network of surveillance, which negatively affected the psychic of many of its inhabitants. The Ukrainian premiere of the film took place on October 27, 2017 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The film participated in the official competition program of the 33rd Warsaw International Film Festival in 2017. In 2018, the film won the Ukrainian National Film Award "Golden Dzyga" in the category "Best Documentary" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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