The Eve of Ivan Kupalo 1968
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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.
- Released: 1968-12-25
- Runtime: 71 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Stars: Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko, Davyd Yanover, Dmytro Franko
- Director: Yurii Illienko, Nikolai Gogol, Yurii Illienko, Pyotr Maksimenko, Serhiy Brzhestovsky
