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The Enchanted Desna (1964)

The Enchanted Desna (1964)

Drama Fantasy War
Release Date: 1964, December 7
Directors: Yuliya Solntseva
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm, Dovzhenko Film Studios
Cast: Ivan Pereverzev, Vladimir Gusev, Ivan Zhevago, Zinaida Kirienko, Boris Yurchenko, Evgeniy Samoylov, Boris Andreyev, Vyacheslav Voronin, Iya Marks, Grigori Zaslavets, Yevhen Bondarenko, Vova Goncharov

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.

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woman director ukrainian folklore