The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

Movie · 1h 11m

Starring Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko, Davyd Yanover

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.