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STOLEN HAPPINESS

fiction feauture film


Ukrainian Olena Tykha, fleeing from Irpen, lost her newborn daughter and husband under enemy fire. In a semi-conscious state, she travels on a crowded train to Western Ukraine together with an evacuated orphanage. Someone left a few-month-old baby in the carriage with the orphans. Not realizing her act until the end, Olena gets off at the Lviv train station, hiding under her jacket someone else's child. She crosses the Polish border, passing the child off as her own, uses the documents of her dead daughter. She hides in refugee centers, and then in the family of a Polish doctor, so as not to be exposed. Olena wants to start a new life in a foreign country, but the guilt of what she has done haunts her. Therefore, the woman starts searching for the girl's mother and eventually finds her. Olena meets a war-ravaged, half-crazed young woman who repents for what she has done. The main character faces a difficult moral choice: give or keep the child?


 

СREATIVE TEAM

OKSANA KUKOBA, scriptwriter

Ukrainian screenwriter and creative producer. She was born on July 9, 1982 in Kustivtsi, Khmelnytskyi region. In 2005, she graduated from the Institute of Journalism at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in journalism.

Creative producer / screenwriter of series production

Star Light Production LLC (Star Light Media LLC)



Selected filmography:

• Just Nadiya (Просто Надія, 2024) creative producer/screenwriter;

• United Family (Одна родина, 2024) creative producer/screenwriter;

• Crystal springs (Кришталеві джерела, 2024) ), creative producer;

• Love of Vira (Любов Віри, 2021), creative producer;

• Uncontrolled Love (Некероване кохання, 2021) creative producer;

• Embraces of Lies (Обійми брехні, 2020) creative producer/screenwriter;

• Midwife (Акушерка, 2020), creative producer / screenwriter;"


DIANA NOVYK, producer


"Ukrainian producer. She was born on April 17, 1989 in Ternopil.

In 2012, she graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv with a degree in international journalism. She has 14 years of experience in film production.




Selected filmography:

• Just Nadiya (Просто Надія, 2024)

• Recognize me (Впізнай мене, 2024)

• United Family (Одна родина, 2024)

• Crystal springs (Кришталеві джерела, 2024) )

• Love of Vira (Любов Віри, 2021)

• Uncontrolled Love (Некероване кохання, 2021)

• Embraces of Lies (Обійми брехні, 2020)

• Midwife (Акушерка, 2020),"



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