The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
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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.
Cast
Larysa KadochnykovaPidorka
Boris KhmelnitskyPetro
Oleksandr SergienkoIvas
Davyd YanoverMaster
Dmytro FrankoKorzh
Yevgeni FridmanBasavriuk
Gemma FirsovaWitch
Konstantin ErshovPriest
Boryslav BrondukovSuitor
Mykhailo IllienkoSuitor
Viktor PanchenkoSuitor
Nikolai SilisTavern keeperCrew
DirectorYurii Illienko
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Original TitleВечір на Івана Купала
Release DateDecember 25, 1968
LanguagesUkrainian
StudiosDovzhenko Film Studios
