The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (movie)
Вечір на Івана Купала- User score: 6.9
- Production country: Soviet Union
- Producer: Yurii Illienko
- Production companies: Dovzhenko Film Studios
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
- Release date: 12/25/1968
- Run time: 71 min.
Movie description
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.
