Ship's Master

Recommended for readers aged 16+

The book "The Master of the Ship" is the literary debut of Ukrainian writer, poet, and romantic Yuriy Ivanovych Yanovsky. The work was based on the author's personal experience working at the Odesa Film Studio, and the events of the novel revolve around a group of young people, each searching for their purpose. Yanovsky's friends and colleagues became the prototypes for these characters. Such a literary device allowed the author to recreate their attempts to overcome life's storms in a whimsical narrative.

For the beginning of the twentieth century, the novel "The Master of the Ship" seemed completely unlike other stories; who before the "good genius of Ukrainian cinema" had previously described the film-making process? The writer details not only the interaction of the characters but also the process of building a real sailboat, which is used as part of the scenery for the film.