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The Stone Cross (1968)

The Stone Cross (1968)

Drama History
Release Date: 1968, March 7
Directors: Leonid Osyka
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Dovzhenko Film Studios
Cast: Kostiantyn Stepankov, Boryslav Brondukov, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Borys Savchenko, Antonina Leftiy, Vasyl Symchych, Danylo Ilchenko, Kateryna Mateyko, Oleksa Atamanyuk

Overview:

In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.