A collective portrait of women created during the gathering of firewood. Hard labour is not so daunting in good company, with conversations about life, death, loneliness, and men; with criticism of “glasnost”, seasoned with folk humour.
The film has been digitised from a 35mm positive print using a Blackmagic Cintel Scanner in 2026 by the Dovzhenko Centre Film Laboratory in cooperation with NGO Docudays, with financial support from the European Union.
CREW:
Director: Khadzhy-Murad Mamedov
Production
Ukrainian Studio of Chronicle and Documentary Films / Українська студія хронікально-документальних фільмів
Director
Khadzhy-Murad Mamedov
Khadzhy-Murad Mamedov is a Ukrainian documentary director and cinematographer. He was born on 3 April 1939 in Tskhinvali (Sakartvelo). Starting in the 1960s, he worked at the Kyiv Studio of Popular Science Films and at the Ukrkinochronika studio. His works include Sunday Morning (1987, Golden Dragon Prize, Poland, 1988), Wound, Zone (1988), Termination of the Agreement (1991), Who Wants War?, Ukrainians. We Are Saved (1992), One Day (1993), Yesterday, Today, Forever (1996), We Have Not Seen Love — If Not War, Then Grief (1997), The Street of My Life (1999, video), More Than Cinema… Jerzy Kawalerowicz (2002) and others.
