The Enchanted Desna

Dec 7, 1964

1h 17m

★ 5.6

Overview

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

Genres

Drama

War

Fantasy

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Dovzhenko Film Studios

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Cast

Writer

Evgeniy Samoylov

Sashko

Vova Goncharov

Father

Yevhen Bondarenko

Mother

Zinaida Kirienko

Platon

Boris Andreyev

construction manager

Ivan Pereverzev

probaba

Iya Marks

Savka

Grigori Zaslavets

Kolodub

Vladimir Gusev

Drobot

Anatoli Yushko

Troyanda

Vyacheslav Voronin

father Kirill

Ivan Zhevago

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