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The Stone Cross

The Stone Cross

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 7, 1968

Runtime

1h 16m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

63%

Original Title

Камінний хрест

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

Director

Leonid Osyka

Description

In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.