Slovo House

Mykola Khvylovy, Ostap Vyshnya, Mykhaylo Semenko, Anatol Petrytsky, Antin Dyky and others moved under one roof.

However, this paradise was equipped with a special surveillance system and a network of agents, thanks to which the authors were kept under control by the Soviet secret services.

All who visited this house were also under this control, among them - Bertolt Brecht, Theodore Dreiser, Bruno Jasieński, who came to Kharkiv for the International Conference of Revolutionary Writers in 1930.

Ilyenko also praised the artistic skill of the film, noting that the creators managed to organically combine contemporary and archival video.

A reviewer for the Texty magazine also praised the film, saying that its educational component will help bring these repressed Ukrainian artists back into our public space.