An Aquarium in the Sea. The Story of the New York Group of Poets 2016

Directed by Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko

In the middle of ХХ century the Ukrainian cultural elite faced the problem of choice: to escape and save their national identity or assimilate and remain in the Soviet Union. The film tells the story of New York Group of Poets, founded in 1950. Ukrainian poets, who grew up in the English-speaking world, in the middle of XX century are trying to preserve their culture and grow it to the level of world culture.