The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968) on Netflix
NR19681h 11mDramaFantasyMystery
Petro is a farmhand in a poor village who wants to marry Pidorka, but her stern father refuses. The demon Basavriuk offers him a deal.
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Plot summary
Piotr is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. Luckily, the mischievous demon Bassaruv is loose in the land, and offers him a deal.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968)
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- Behind Mykola Gogol's story of the same name, director Yuriy Illienko hid what the Dovzhenko Centre calls the true mythological history of Ukraine — from the Cossacks and Tatar raids to Potemkin villages and pilgrimage at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.
- The film's shooting locations are themselves a historical artifact: the places used to make it were territories later flooded by the Kaniv Reservoir.
- Footage from "Evening on Ivan Kupala" was used in the 2022 music video "Kupala" by Jerry Heil, Alyona alyona and Ela.
