The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

Name: The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Released: 25 Dec 1968
Rating: 6.84
Cast: Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko, Davyd Yanover, Dmytro Franko

1968-12-25 Soviet Union 71 minutes.

6.84 19 votes

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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.

Year 1968

Studio Dovzhenko Film Studios

Director Yurii Illienko

Crew Emilya Illienko (Assistant Director), Leonid Vachi (Sound Editor), Serhiy Brzhestovsky (Set Decoration), Pyotr Maksimenko (Production Design), Georgi Djulgerov (Assistant Director), Yurii Illienko (Director)

Popularity 2

Language Український