• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1968-12-25
  • Runtime71 minutes
  • TaglineNot Available
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreDrama, Fantasy, Mystery
  • Production
    CompaniesDovzhenko Film Studios
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie 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.

Casts

Larysa Kadochnykova

Boris Khmelnitsky

Oleksandr Sergienko

Davyd Yanover

Dmytro Franko

Yevgeni Fridman

Gemma Firsova

Konstantin Ershov

Boryslav Brondukov

Mykhailo Illienko

Viktor Panchenko

Nikolai Silis