In an article in the context of artistic research director Leonid Osyka Mikhailovich the place of music and folk tradition as one of the main components in the dispute between the direction of Soviet socialist realism and Ukrainian poetic cinema of the 1960s. Analyzed the importance of folk music as a means to gain agility and emotion dramatic action in the works of L. Osyka – masterpieces of national kinomystetskoyi school – «Stone Cross» and «Zakhar Berkut».