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The Enchanted Desna (1964)

Directed by Yuliya Solntseva

Overview

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko.  About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

Length 77 minutes

Actors

Evgeniy Samoylov | Vladimir Goncharov | Yevgeni Bondarenko | Zinaida Kirienko | Boris Andreyev | Ivan Pereverzev | Iya Marks | Grigori Zaslavets | Vladimir Gusev | Anatoli Yushko | Vyacheslav Voronin | Ivan Zhevago | Boris Yurchenko | Vladimir Perepelyuk | Mikhail Gladysh | Aleksandr Romanenko