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
Director: Yurii Illienko
Cast: Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko, Davyd Yanover
Country: Soviet Union
Quality: HD
Runtime: 71 min.
Release: 1968
IMDb: 6.9/10