Directed by Leonid Osyka | 80 mins | 1968
Adapted from two short stories by the influential modernist writer Vasyl Stefanyk, Leonid Osyka’s best-known film—regarded as one of the supreme achievements of Ukrainian cinema—is set among the northeastern foothills of the Carpathians at the end of the 19th century. Ivan (Daniil Ilchenko), a peasant, is poised to make a new start in Canada when a thief breaks into his house. He must decide this transgressor’s fate before a council of his unforgiving neighbors.