In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.
Stars: Danylo Ilchenko, Kateryna Mateyko, Boryslav Brondukov, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Kostiantyn Stepankov, Vasyl Symchych
Crew: Ivan Drach (Screenplay), Leonid Osyka (Director), Volodymyr Huba (Music), Valeriy Kvas (Director of Photography), Vasyl Stefanyk (Short Story), Marfa Ponomarenko (Editor)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Український
Studio: Dovzhenko Film Studios
Runtime: 76 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 07, 1968
IMDb: 4.7
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