Directed by:
Sergei ParajanovScreenplay:
Sergei ParajanovCinematography:
Yuriy IlyenkoComposer:
Miroslav SkorikPlots(1)
"There is no devil in church, only among men." Deep in the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life, and death among the Hutsul people are as they've been since time began. While young Ivan's mother mourns her husband's brutal murder, Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart. Unhappily married to another woman and cursed by a sorcerer in this life, Ivan's obsession with his lost love lures him ever closer to a reunion with Marichka in death. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Ivan Mikolaychuk](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/138/166138467_0b7cb4.jpg)
Ivan Mikolaychuk
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Liberation: Breakthrough (1970)
![Igor Dzyura](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/215/159215494_816ac3.jpg)
Igor Dzyura
Best movies:
![Larisa Kadochnikova](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/559/158559491_ababd6.jpg)
Larisa Kadochnikova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
A Spring for the Thirsty (1965)
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
The Eve of Ivan Kupala (1968)
![Tatyana Bestayeva](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/215/159215405_5937ee.jpg)
Tatyana Bestayeva
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Sandu Follows the Sun (1962)
Валентина Глинько
Soviet Union
Best movies:
![Spartak Bagashvili](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/215/159215541_9d0b3f.jpg)
Spartak Bagashvili
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
The White Caravan (1963)
The Entreaty (1967)
![Nikolay Grinko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272081_d119a7.jpg)
Nikolay Grinko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
![Нина Алисова](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/215/159215598_de81bc.jpg)
Нина Алисова
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Rainbow (1943)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
The Lady with the Dog (1960)
![Leonid Yengibarov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/836/158836564_deaaf4.jpg)
Leonid Yengibarov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Pechki-lavochki (1972)
![Aleksandr Gay](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/215/159215620_dcf065.jpg)
Aleksandr Gay
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Duma o Kovpake: Karpaty, Karpaty... (1976)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Duma o Kovpake: Nabat (1973)
Neonila Gnepovskaya
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Obratnoy dorogi net (1970)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Collapse (1990)
Aleksandr Raydanov
Best movies:
Станислав Пазенко
Soviet Union
Best movies: