Despite the good picture and acting the beginning of the movie seemed too artificial to me and I even was thinking to stop watching it. However, with full respect to Vasyl Stus's story, I made myself to watch it till the end and now I'm glad of spending my time seeing this picture. From one side it depicts the real face of the rotten Soviet system that was ruling in Ukraine. From another side, the movie shows us the strength of Stus spirit and the whole devotion of the master to his ideas full of faith in freedom and humanity.
Thanks to the authors for making the movie on such an important topic.