The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968)

Director: Yurii Illienko

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.

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

Boryslav Brondukov

Suitor

Mykhailo Illienko

Suitor