The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

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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.

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Drama,

Fantasy,

Mystery

Duration:

71 minutes

Year:

1968

Director:

Yurii Illienko

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Company:

Dovzhenko Film Studios

Cast:
Larysa Kadochnykova

Pidorka

Boris Khmelnitsky

Petro

Oleksandr Sergienko

Ivas

Davyd Yanover

Master

Dmytro Franko

Korzh

Crew:
Yurii Illienko

Writer

Yurii Illienko

Director

Georgi Djulgerov

Assistant Director

Emilya Illienko

Assistant Director

Leonid Vachi

Sound Editor