Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

by Stefano Maurizi

Stefano Maurizi on a haunting film of ancestral memory and Carpathian myth.

It was 1965 when, in the pages of the newspaper Ranok, readers across Ukraine were pleasantly surprised to encounter “Sonata of Hutsulshchyna,” the poem by Hanna Shaburiak dedicated to Hutsulshchyna, the Carpathian region on the border between Ukraine and Romania. Today, this reg…