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Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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. 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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
198 audience votes
Key crew
- Sergei ParajanovWriter
- Ivan ChendejWriter
- Sergei ParajanovDirector
- Myroslav SkorykOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ivan MykolaichukIvan Paliychuk
- Larysa KadochnykovaMarichka Gutenyuk
- Tatyana BestayevaPalagna
- Mykola HrynkoBatag
- Spartak BagashviliYurko Malfara
- Leonid YengibarovMiko
- Nina AlisovaPaliychuk, Ivan's Mother
- Oleksandr HaiPetro Paliychuk
- Neonila HnepovskaGutenyuk
- Aleksandr RaydanovOnufriy Gutenyuk
- Igor DzyuraYoung Ivan
- Valentina GlinkoYoung Marichka