The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
MovieTitle | Вечір на Івана Купала |
User score | 6.9 |
Release date | Dec 25, 1968 |
Genre | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery |
Director | Yurii Illienko |
Production country | Soviet Union |
Production companies | Dovzhenko Film Studios |
Run time | 71 min. |
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.