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.
Title | The Eve of Ivan Kupalo |
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Year | 1968 |
Genre | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery |
Country | Soviet Union |
Studio | Dovzhenko Film Studios |
Cast | Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko, Davyd Yanover, Dmytro Franko, Yevgeni Fridman |
Crew | Emilya Illienko (Assistant Director), Leonid Vachi (Sound Editor), Serhiy Brzhestovsky (Set Decoration), Pyotr Maksimenko (Production Design), Georgi Djulgerov (Assistant Director), Yurii Illienko (Director) |
Keyword | hallucination, surrealism, pact with the devil, ukrainian village, mystical, ukrainian folklore, dance ritual |
Release | Dec 25, 1968 |
Runtime | 71 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 6.90 / 10 by 18 users |
Popularity | 3 |
Budget | 0 |
Revenue | 0 |
Language | Український |