Directed by Yuri Illienko | 99 mins | 1971
Set during and immediately after World War II in a Hutsul village in Bukovyna—a region straddling the border between Ukraine and Romania and claimed by both—Illienko’s magnum opus follows a family of traveling folk musicians led by a world-weary patriarch, his three sons divided in their wartime allegiances. "The White Bird Marked with Black" is a masterclass in bravura camera movement, recalling Illienko’s work as DP on Sergei Parajanov’s "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (1965).