Film
Laughter in My Soul
Canada- Director
- Halya Kuchmij
- Year
- 1983
This short documentary profiles cartoonist, painter, humorist, publisher, iconographer, and teacher Jacob Maydanyk. Part of the first wave of Ukrainian immigrants who arrived in Canada between 1896-1914, Maydanyk was an imaginative artist who created the beloved comic strip character Shteef Tabachniuk, a hapless and endearing galoot who became a folk hero to Ukrainian immigrants. Laughter in My Soul is a tribute to the dignity and heroism of those early pioneers and to those whose spirit lives on, to those who had laughter in their souls.
Top cast
Directed by
Halya Kuchmij
Written by
Halya Kuchmij
Produced by
Wolf Koenig, Halya Kuchmij
