Petro 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. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales.
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Larysa Kadochnykova , Boris Khmelnitsky , Oleksandr Sergienko , Davyd Yanover , Dmytro Franko , Yevgeni Fridman
Yurii Illienko
Dovzhenko Film Studios
