Eneida

The animation comes from a poem. The poem is called Eneida. Its author is Ivan Kotlyarevsky. The text was published in 1798. Kotlyarevsky is among the first names of modern Ukrainian literature. The poem imitates the Aeneid of Virgil. But the heroes have been changed. Cossacks take the place of the warriors of Troy. As it stands the account is a work of mockery. The film carries the poem over into drawing. The scenes are broad and playful. The animation was made for adults. The drawing and the colour are used freely. Adventure and history run together in the film. The Cossacks stand at the centre of the story. Andrii Podubynskyi gives the voice in the sixty nine minute animation, a Soviet production Vladimir Dakhno finished in 1991.