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.

Country: Soviet Union

Cast

Larysa Kadochnykova

Boris Khmelnitsky

Oleksandr Sergienko

Davyd Yanover

Dmytro Franko

Yevgeni Fridman

Gemma Firsova

Konstantin Ershov