Born in 1930 and died in 1984 in Kiev (Ukraine). Imprisoned for five years in the late 1940s for ‘bourgeois nationalism’ and rehabilitated in 1956, director Volodymyr Denysenko filmed Conscience in 1968 with his own students, who during the shooting of the film stayed in the small town where it was filmed, exchanging their labour for food and lodging. Conscience was shelved for more than two decades. The director did not live long enough see it on the screen. ‘Conscience’ was released only in 1991, the year of Ukrainian independence (24 August), and was screened at Kyiv’s First All-Ukrainian Film Festival.