The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
1968
Fantasy, Drama, Mystery | 25 December 1968
Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko
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.