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.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Stars: Larysa Kadochnykova, Boris Khmelnitsky, Oleksandr Sergienko, Davyd Yanover, Dmytro Franko, Yevgeni Fridman
Crew: Yurii Illienko (Director), Nikolai Gogol (Story), Yurii Illienko (Writer), Pyotr Maksimenko (Production Design), Serhiy Brzhestovsky (Set Decoration), Georgi Djulgerov (Assistant Director)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Український
Studio: Dovzhenko Film Studios
Runtime: 71 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 25, 1968
IMDb: 4.1
