The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
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1h 11m
Directed by Yuri Illienko | 71 mins | 1968
Loosely adapted from an 1830 short story by Nikolai Gogol, this is the symbol-rich tale of a farmer, Petro (Boris Khmelnitsky), who, prevented from wedding the lovely Pidorka (Larisa Kadochnikova) by her disapproving father, turns to a demon who promises to expedite their union—for a price. A key inspiration for Robert Eggers’s "Nosferatu", Yuri Illienko’s second feature is augmented, like "A Well for the Thirsty" (1965) before it, by Leonid Hrabovsky’s intricate, otherworldly soundscapes.
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