The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

6.8

19 votes

  • 1968-12-25
  • 71
  • uk
    • Drama 
    • Fantasy 
    • Mystery 

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.