The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

Name: The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
Director: Yurii Illienko
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Released: 1968-12-25
Duration: 1 h 11 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko, Davyd Yanover, Dmytro Franko

Directed by Yurii Illienko

Drama

Fantasy

Mystery

19681h 11m7.0

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.