Vechir na Ivana Kupala
Also known as Ivana Kupala Night, The Eve of St. John
1968 film by Yuri Ilyenko
Film · TMDB
7.0Petro 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.
Released: 1968-12-2571 minDir: Yurii IllienkoDrama, Fantasy, Mystery
Cast
- Larysa Kadochnykova as Pidorka
- Boris Khmelnitsky as Petro
- Oleksandr Sergienko as Ivas
- Davyd Yanover as Master
- Dmytro Franko as Korzh
- Yevgeni Fridman as Basavriuk
Themes
- hallucination
- surrealism