![The Eve of Ivan Kupalo](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/jlqtwZIjcmMoDJGI95ScAs7bkl9.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | Nikolai Gogol |
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Director | Yurii Illienko |
Actor | Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko |
Country | Soviet Union |
Production | Dovzhenko Film Studios |