Ivan Kocherha

Ivan Kocherha

1881-10-06
71 (1952-12-29)
Nosivka, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]

Ivan Antonovych Kocherha was a Ukrainian playwright. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1950).

Nosivka, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]

Ivan Antonovych Kocherha was a Ukrainian playwright. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1950).

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Svichka's Wedding 1982

The story is based on a play by Ivan Kocherha about love against the backdrop of the craftsmen's uprising in Kyiv in the 16th century. The drama and the animation take place simultaneously in Podil, the center of bourgeois and craftsman life, and on mount Vzdykhalnytsia, where the Lithuanian castle is located. The director Tadeush Pavlenko takes the last three acts of Kocherha's play as a basis, placing the female character Melanka, the beloved of Ivan Svichka, at the center of the plot.
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Svichka's Wedding 1962

A spectacle version of Ivan Franko Theater, based on “The Candle of Fun” by Ivan Kocherga.
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The Watchmaker and the Chicken 1989 (7)

In 1913, chance brings together a young high school teacher Yurkevich, his first love Lida, a wealthy landowner Lundyshev and a German watchmaker Karfunkel at a small railway station. Seven years later, in the early twenties, and then another seven years later, the heroes meet here again. Their destinies are different, the country changes, their lives change...