The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

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.

Genre:

Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Duration:

71 min

Actor:

Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko

Quality:

HD

Director:

Yurii Illienko

Release:

1968

Country:

Soviet Union

IMDb:

7.0