Yuri ILIENKO
Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО
Youri ILIENKO
USSR (Ukraine), 1968, 71mn 
Colour, fiction
Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala
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Вечер накануне Ивана Купала

 

 The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

 La Nuit de la Saint-Jean

Other titles : Vechir Na Ivana Kupala
 
Directed by : Yuri ILIENKO (Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО)
Writing credits : Yuri ILIENKO (Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО)
 
Cast
Borislav BRONDUKOV (Борислав БРОНДУКОВ) ...garçon déguisé
Jemma FIRSOVA (Джемма ФИРСОВА)
Dmitry FRANKO (Дмитрий ФРАНКО) ...le père de Pidorka
Mikhail ILYENKO (Михаил ИЛЬЕНКО) ...garçon déguisé
Larisa KADOCHNIKOVA (Лариса КАДОЧНИКОВА) ...Pidorka
Boris KHMELNITSKY (Борис ХМЕЛЬНИЦКИЙ) ...Petro
 
Cinematography : Vadim ILIENKO (Вадим ИЛЬЕНКО)
Production design : Pyotr MAKSIMENTO (Пётр МАКСИМЕНКО), Valery NOVAKOV (Валерий НОВАКОВ)
Music : Leonid GRABOSKY (Леонид ГРАБОВСКИЙ)
Sound : Leonid VACHI (Леонид ВАЧИ)
Companies : Studio Dovzhenko
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
This darkly evocative, poetic and imagistic film is based on several folktales recounted by Nikolai V. Gogol (1809-1852). Cinematically complex and varied, the nonlinear story is told with virtually no dialog and serves mainly as a framework for showing scenes with deeply mythological imagery. It concerns the efforts a young peasant is making to win the hand of a rich man's daughter, in the course of which the peasant is led deeper and deeper into complicity with the evils that surround him. This Ukrainian film was shot in 1968, but only received general release in 1989.
Clarke Fountain, www.allmovie.com
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2017
- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2012
- Rencontres internationales du cinéma du patrimoine, Vincennes (France), 2010
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2009

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