A civilian evacuation of unprecedented scale, conducted by Ukrainian railway workers during the largest war in Europe since World War II. This film delves into the extraordinary journeys of courageous railway workers who risked their lives daily to evacuate people from the most life-threatening war-torn regions in Ukraine.
Documentary-filmed events in the Carpatho-Ukraine (aka Ruthenia) during 1939 drive this history of the Ukraine's struggle for independence as a nation.
“HUTZULSHCHYNA” produced by Kalyna Film Company in 1938, was brought from Western Ukraine by Mykola Novak, in order to acquaint the people with the life of the Ukrainian mountaineer. Hutzulshchyna is now divided by two Governments, part is occupied by Poland and another part is occupied by the Hungarian Government. The Hutzuls have lived through a very tragic episode in their struggle to regain their freedom from Poland, and recently from March 13 to March 30, 1939, thousands of Hutzuls were killed by the Hungarian Army in their fight for freedom.
The film was reedited in the United States in 1938 by Kalyna Film Company of Mykola Novak, using very unique special effects.
