A Story of the Forest: Mavka
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- Runtime
- 83 mins
Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses the nymph, transforming her into a weeping willow. This beautiful and tragic story is based on a play written in 1912 by Lesya Ukrainka, a Ukrainian poet, writer and political, civil and female activist, and includes mythological characters taken from Ukrainian folklore.
Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses the nymph, transforming her into a weeping willow. This beautiful and tragic story is based on a play written in 1912 by Lesya Ukrainka, a Ukrainian poet, writer and political, civil and female activist, and includes mythological characters taken from Ukrainian folklore.
Cast
- Liudmyla Yefymenko
- Viktor Kremlev
- Maya Bulgakova
- Ivan Mykolaichuk
- Boris Khmelnitsky
- Viktor Demertash
- Lyudmyla Lobza
- Nina Shatskaya
- Svetlana Sergeyeva
- Ivan Khodulin
- Pylyp Illienko
- Vladimir Fyodorov
Director
- Yurii Illienko
Producers
Screenwriter
- Yurii Illienko
