The documentary from the RTVS production about a Ukrainian conductor from Košice, Levko Dovhovych
September 10, 2019 at 15:00, Palace of books Panta Rhei, Hlavná 72, Košice
When in 1950 he was arrested and convicted, he was not yet even 15 years old. In 1953, he was sentenced to death for his participation in the strike of political prisoners at Vorkuta, but as he was a minor, they had to change the sentence. He got another 10 years in the gulag. At the Stalinist “spa” as Stalin’s camps were called, he met with outstanding conductors, directors of theatres – also political prisoners. More than 60 years ago Levko Dohovič first conducted the choir of prisoners. After the death of Stalin and he was given his freedom. Along with his mother and three sisters he joined his father, who as a priest had fled from Ukraine during the war in Czechoslovakia. He established choirs in Prague, Prešov and Kosice. He still conducts today, because music is the force that helped him survive.
Screenplay and director: Ľuba Koľová
Operator: Vladislav Hroš, Ladislav Csiky