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Svichka's Wedding

Svichka's Wedding

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1982

Runtime

0h 10m

Genres

Animation, History

Original Title

Свіччине весілля

Production Companies

Kyivnaukfilm

Director

Tadeush Pavlenko

Description

The story is based on a play by Ivan Kocherha about love against the backdrop of the craftsmen's uprising in Kyiv in the 16th century. The drama and the animation take place simultaneously in Podil, the center of bourgeois and craftsman life, and on mount Vzdykhalnytsia, where the Lithuanian castle is located. The director Tadeush Pavlenko takes the last three acts of Kocherha's play as a basis, placing the female character Melanka, the beloved of Ivan Svichka, at the center of the plot.