
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
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- Runtime
- 71 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Larysa Kadochnykova
- Boris Khmelnitsky
- Oleksandr Sergienko
- Davyd Yanover
- Dmytro Franko
- Yevgeni Fridman
- Gemma Firsova
- Konstantin Ershov
- Boryslav Brondukov
- Mykhailo Illienko
- Viktor Panchenko
- Nikolai Silis
Director
- Yurii Illienko