Belarusian cinema from 1930s to 1980s in Ukrainian printed film posters from fonds of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

The aim of the article is to represent the Ukrainian film posters from the fonds of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine as visual historical sources for the study of Belarusian cinema from the 1930s to the 1980s. The methodology of the research is based on the application of methods of historical and cultural, art historical, iconographic, visual and stylistic and comparative analyzes. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the introduction of film posters as pictorial documentary sources on the history of Belarusian cinema into the scientific circulation, as well as the expansion of information about Ukrainian artists who worked in the field of cinema advertising. Conclusions. A comprehensive analysis of the collection of printed Ukrainian film posters from the fonds of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine allowed to get acquainted with the film repertoire, main trends, features, themes and genre diversity of Belarusian cinema in historical retrospect through the prism of graphic works of domestic poster artists. The panorama of films represented on Ukrainian posters, inter alia dramas, historical and adventure films, comedies and children's films forms a wide layer of the national historical and cultural heritage of Belarus created by the best filmmakers of the republic, as well as filmmakers of the former Soviet Union and partially of foreign countries. The major success of Belarusian cinema was related to the creation of children's fairy tales and film adaptations of classical and modern literary works. The main theme was the depiction of the tragic events of the World War II, the guerrilla movement in Belarus and difficult military childhood. In the 1930s, the national cinema was developing in line with general trends, in the 1960s and 1970s it brought up issues of the current realities of life and the historical past, and since the mid-1980s it could be characterized as a progressive cultural and artistic phenomenon addressing the acute social problems.