Eugen Hvatov is the subject of the documentary film "I Am A Monument to Myself". He has a strange love for graves and has created over 100 memorials in Western Ukraine. His memorials help people remember their history and ancestors. The film follows Eugen as he creates a memorial for German soldiers who fell near his village, showing his efforts towards reconciliation. The documentary has been screened at several international film festivals, winning awards for best Ukrainian documentary.

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a documentary film
"I AM A MONUMENT TO MYSELF"
58 min
Ukraine, 2010
AVAILABLE : WORLDWIDE
DEMO: http://vimeo.com/32840916
The land of Western Ukraine has always been in the crossroads of interests of many countries. This resulted in human lives
being intertwined in the most peculiar ways. The character of Eugen Hvatov performs an important social mission: he deals
with memory. Since childhood he has demonstrated strange love for graves, at present he is the author of more than 100
memorials. His homespun philosophy combines cosmopolitanism and asceticism with an active and provocative role in daily
life of the local community. His monuments stop people from forgetting, they teach them to remember their history and their
ancestors. In the course of the film we watch making and setting of the memorial to German soldiers fallen in actions which
took place near the village and some more gestures of reconciliation by this non-conventional character.
Molodist international film festival 2010– the best film Ukrainian documentary
NYC kinofest - New York, USA, February 2010
Docudays Human Rights Film Festival – Kyiv, Ukraine, March 2010
GoEast Film Festival – Wiesbaden, Germany, April 2010
Golden Pectoral TV film festival – Truskavec, Ukraine, best historical documentary - Krakow film festival – Krakow,
Poland, May 2010
Brave festival – Wroclav, Poland, July 2010
Tranzit film festival – Poznan, Poland, August 2010
KinoLev film festival – Lviv, Ukraine, August 2010, The best Ukrainian documentary
CinePecs film festival – Budapest, Hungary, October 2010
Romania International film festival – Buharest, Romania, October 2010
Pravo Ljudske Film festival – Sarajevo, November 2010