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The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 25, 1968

Runtime

1h 11m

Genres

Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

User Score

69%

Original Title

Вечір на Івана Купала

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

Director

Yurii Illienko

Description

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.