The Stone Cross
MovieTitle | Камінний хрест |
User score | 6.3 |
Release date | Mar 7, 1968 |
Genre | Drama, History |
Director | Leonid Osyka |
Production country | Soviet Union |
Production companies | Dovzhenko Film Studios |
Run time | 76 min. |
In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.