The Enchanted Desna (1964)
Synopsis
Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.
Cast
-
Evgeniy Samoylov
as Writer
- Vova Goncharov as Sashko
-
Yevhen Bondarenko
as Father
-
Zinaida Kirienko
as Mother
-
Boris Andreyev
as Platon
-
Ivan Pereverzev
as construction manager
-
Iya Marks
as probaba
- Grigori Zaslavets as Savka
-
Vladimir Gusev
as Kolodub
- Anatoli Yushko as Drobot
-
Vyacheslav Voronin
as Troyanda
-
Ivan Zhevago
as father Kirill
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Boris Yurchenko
as dyak Luka
- Vladimir Perepelyuk as bandura player
- Mikhail Gladysh as Makar
- Oleksandr Romanenko as Samoylo
Crew
-
Yuliya Solntseva
Director
-
Aleksei Temerin
Director of Photography
- Valentina Korovkina Editor
- Lyudmila Pechiyeva Editor
-
Gavriil Popov
Original Music Composer
