“Slovo House. Unfinished Novel” is a dramatic story about Ukrainian writers from the era of

the Executed Renaissance who were gathered under the roof of one building and forced to

work for the benefit of the Soviet system. The film depicts how the communist paradise turns

into a communist hell.

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In 1927, Soviet Ukraine, by order of Stalin, the “Slovo” cooperative house was built in

Kharkiv. The most outstanding Ukrainian writers live in comfortable apartments. All of them

became participants in an experiment aimed at deriving a new type of Soviet writer and

establishing total control over the creative process in order to create a single artistic method

of socialist realism. However, not every writer agrees to glorify Stalin’s cult.

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Unexpectedly for the residents of the “Slovo” House, an unknown young writer named

Volodymyr Akimov moves in with them. Who is he? No one knows. With his arrival, strange

events begin to happen in the “Slovo” House, events that its walls still remain silent about.

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The film will be accompanied by the short opening lecture by Ihor Sukhorukov “Nomadische

Boekenplank”, Ukrainian culture enthusiast who will help the viewers explore the context of

that period of time in Ukraine.

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Note: The film will be screened in Ukrainian with English subtitles

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