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The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

  • December 1968
  • 1hr

    11mins

  • Drama
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery
  • Directed by

    Yurii Illienko,

    Starring

    Larysa Kadochnykova,

    Boris Khmelnitsky,

    Oleksandr Sergienko,

    Davyd Yanover

    ...

    Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales.