The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

About The Eve of Ivan Kupalo

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 Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968) is a fantasy mystery film directed by Yurii Illienko. The film is filed under hallucination, pact with the devil, ukrainian village, and ukrainian folklore.

Larysa Kadochnykova stars as Pidorka, Boris Khmelnitsky as Petro, Oleksandr Sergienko as Ivas, and Davyd Yanover as Master. At 71 minutes long, it arrived in December 1968.

The screenplay is by Yurii Illienko.

Trainspotting, Mulholland Drive, and The Devil's Advocate make useful companions to The Eve of Ivan Kupalo, all filed under surrealism.