Mavka: The Forest Song

Mar 2, 2023

1h 39m

★ 7.1

Overview

Mavka, a Soul of the Forest, faces an impossible choice between love and her duty as Guardian of the Heart of the Forest when she falls for a human, a talented young musician named Lukas.

Genres

Animation

Adventure

Family

Fantasy

Production Companies

Animagrad Animation Studio

3Beep

FILM.UA Group

Ukrainian State Film Agency

B-Water Animation Studios

Mavka: The Forest Song Trailers

Cast

Mavka (voice)

Natalka Denysenko

Lucas (voice)

Artem Pyvovarov

Lesh (voice)

Nazar Zadniprovskyi

The One, Who Sits in the Rock (voice)

Oleh Skrypka

Kylina (voice)

Olena Kravets

Frol (voice)

Serhii Prytula

Uncle Leo (voice)

Oleh Mykhailiuta

The Healer (voice)

Nataliia Sumska

Ondina (voice)

Julia Sanina

Hush (voice)

Mykhailo Khoma

Narrator of the story at the beginning of the movie (voice)

Nina Matviienko

Ukrainian women (voice)

Kateryna Osadcha

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