Ziferblat: Inspired by Ukrainian author Olha Kobylianska’s 1902 book Zemlya.

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There are extremely many people who obviously are needed to make a proper video! Ukrainian art rockers Ziferblat’s new song Zemlya,

Director — Simon Mozgovyi

Producer – Alex Chepiga

Assistant director — Denis Torchilevskiy

DOP — Denis Melnik

Sound producer – Serhiy KNOB Lubinsky

Studio – Revet Sound

Casting director – Valeriia Ruban

Actors  — Valentyn Leschynskyi, Daniil Leschynskyi, Fedor Khodakov, Sanda Mokanu, Valerii Petuschak, Valeriia Ruban, Sofiia Baskakova, Yaryna Sizyk, Daryna Saliy, Vasylyna Tkachuk

Costumes  — Oleg-Rodion Shurigin-Grekalov, Marina Kero, Yaryna Sizyk

Makeup — Ana Tenné

Color Grading — Marina Tkachenko

Retouching — Denis Belyaev

Sound design — Mikhailo Zakutsky

Gaffer — Nikolay Borets

Electricians – Aleksandr Berezutsky, Sergiy Begun

Evhen Kharchenko

Technical support — PXproduction

Editing  — Sergii Naida, Simon Mozgovyi

Archives  — Mykola Popelukha

DIT — Bohdan Kuschnirchuk

Great thanks to Vitachyv Community

With the support of the Ukrainian Radio Recording House

«The video is an attempt to depict the most important events of the story »,explains guitarist and bassist Valentyn Leschynskyi, whose brother Danil is vocalist and keyboard player. «The director wrote the script based on the fact that two of the band members are brothers. So they played those parts. The leitmotif of the video is the envy and ambivalence of the younger brother towards the older one, a modern interpretation of the biblical story of Cain and Abel. The younger brother is a lowly and emaciated character».

«The topic of the book is very sensitive for Ukrainians nowadays because the main idea of the work is defense and respect for your own land. When the active phase of the war started, we decided to release it for the fear of possible occupation and repression of Ukrainian culture».