1968
6.9 (18 votes)
1h 11m
Genres
Drama
Fantasy
Mystery
Production Companies
Dovzhenko Film Studios
The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (Вечір на Івана Купала)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Yurii Illienko
Director: Yurii Illienko
Story: Nikolai Gogol
Director of Photography: Vadym Illienko
Top Cast
Larysa Kadochnykova
Pidorka
Boris Khmelnitsky
Petro
Oleksandr Sergienko
Ivas
Davyd Yanover
Master
Dmytro Franko
Korzh
Yevgeni Fridman
Basavriuk
Gemma Firsova
Witch
Konstantin Ershov
Priest
Videos
Church of Film: EVE OF IVAN KUPALO (trailer)
