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A film ballad from Bukovina in southwestern Ukraine covers one decade (roughly 1940–1950), with the country undergoing a turbulent development. Territorial conflicts with neighbouring Romania, Nazi occupation, and liberation by the Red Army, in the wake of which a new life bothered by shadows of the past in the form of desperate chauvinism – all those events get reflected in the life of the poor Zvonars family whose four sons get entangled in the twists and turns of their homeland's history. (Febiofest)
(more)Cast
![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 Eve of Ivan Kupala (1968)
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
![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)
![Богдан Ступка](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/812/157812483_251a8a.jpg)
Богдан Ступка
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
With Fire and Sword (1999)
East/West (1999)
Leonid Bakshtayev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
Petlya Oriona (1980)
Aty-baty, shli soldaty... (1976)
Konstantin Stepankov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Duma o Kovpake: Karpaty, Karpaty... (1976)
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
Ashik-Kerib (1988)
![Dzhemma Firsova](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/444/444356_5dc1cb.jpg)
Dzhemma Firsova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
A Spring for the Thirsty (1965)
The Eve of Ivan Kupala (1968)
![Mikhailo Illienko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/099/533/99533906_4e57b3.jpg)
Mikhailo Illienko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Eve of Ivan Kupala (1968)
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
Aleksandr Plotnikov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Mykola Oliynyk
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
Beginning of an Unknown Era (1967)
Kapitan 'Piligrima' (1986)
![Natalja Naum](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/552/166552744_4aed6e.jpg)
Natalja Naum
Poland
Best movies:
The White Bird Marked with Black (1970)
Aty-baty, shli soldaty... (1976)