The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

Dec 25, 1968

1h 11m

★ 6.9

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.

Genres

Drama

Fantasy

Mystery

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

The Eve of Ivan Kupalo Trailers

Cast

Pidorka

Larysa Kadochnykova

Petro

Boris Khmelnitsky

Ivas

Oleksandr Sergienko

Master

Davyd Yanover

Korzh

Dmytro Franko

Basavriuk

Yevgeni Fridman

Witch

Gemma Firsova

Priest

Konstantin Ershov

Suitor

Boryslav Brondukov

Suitor

Mykhailo Illienko

Suitor

Viktor Panchenko

Tavern keeper

Nikolai Silis

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