Pictures from Carpathian Ruthenia

Czechoslovakia / 1924 / 13 min.

synopsis

Ravaged by the Great War, rural and deeply religious, intersected by roads and bridges – these are the glimpses we get of Carpathian Ruthenia in 1924. Even in black-and-white the film accentuates the beauty of the folk costumes during the festivity of the consecration of church bells in the village of Nevickoe, as well as the uniforms of the Czechoslovak border guards on duty along a border lined by wartime graves. Just as trenches are followed by wooden churches and magnificent monasteries, so the turmoil of war is followed by daily oatmeal bread.