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The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968)
Directed by Yuri Ilyenko
Overview
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.
Length 71 minutes
Actors
Larisa Kadochnikova | Boris Khmelnitsky | Oleksandr Sergienko | Davyd Yanover | Dmitri Franko | Yevgeni Fridman | Dzhemma Firsova | Konstantin Ershov | Borislav Brondukov | Mykhailo Illienko | Viktor Panchenko | Nikolai Silis