• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1964-12-07
  • Runtime77 minutes
  • TaglineNot Available
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreDrama, War, Fantasy
  • Production
    CompaniesMosfilm, Dovzhenko Film Studios
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie Overview

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

Casts

Evgeniy Samoylov

Zinaida Kirienko

Boris Andreyev

Ivan Pereverzev

Iya Marks

Vladimir Gusev

Vyacheslav Voronin

Ivan Zhevago

Boris Yurchenko