Shchedryk was featured in the Umbrella Academy series

Ukrainian songs and motifs can be found more and more often in foreign films, but they are mostly poorly chosen. In the last fourth season of the Netflix series Amble Academy, you can hear “Shchedryk” in the original, that is, in Ukrainian, performed by a Lithuanian (not Ukrainian!) choir. However, this event has another catch.

The fact is that the song celebrates the birth of Christ, and the plot for which the legendary music of Mykola Leontovych was chosen does not fit this meaning at all. In the series, it was replaced by the moment when the members of the Umbrella Academy get into an accident. In the Antonina project, Pylyp Zkonopel collected other cases of similar misfortunes from foreign directors.

In 1977, the Hollywood romantic comedy You Light Up My Life featured a Kvitka Cisyk song of the same title. This soundtrack won an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy nomination. However, due to an argument between the singer and director Joseph Brooks, the latter decided not to include the singer’s name in the credits of the film. Later, this song was covered by Whitney Houston and eclipsed all the glory of Kvitka Tsysyk, an American of Ukrainian origin.

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“One way or another, from the 1990s to the present day, Ukrainian in imported films has mostly been about crying and crying. A relatively recent case is Jamala’s soundtrack for the Canadian-Polish-Ukrainian film The Price of Truth,” the source writes. .

In the comedy Spy, Verka Serdyuchka appears for a few seconds in the frame, performing her Eurovision hit Dancing Lasha Tumbai, while the main character runs after the villain.

“The reason why our Verka sings Dancing Lasha Tumbai is definitely not the most pleasant. This variety show reeks of the atmosphere of “funny Ukrainians” that Russians are particularly fond of. American gentlemen, don’t do this!” Pylyp Zkonopel was outraged.