Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet 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.
Stars: Evgeniy Samoylov, Vova Goncharov, Yevhen Bondarenko, Zinaida Kirienko, Boris Andreyev, Ivan Pereverzev
Crew: Yuliya Solntseva (Director), Leonid Bulgakov (Sound), Aleksei Temerin (Director of Photography), Gavriil Popov (Original Music Composer), Valentina Korovkina (Editor), Oleksandr Dovzhenko (Novel)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский, Український
Studio: Mosfilm, Dovzhenko Film Studios
Runtime: 77 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 07, 1964
IMDb: 5.4
Keywords:woman director, ukrainian folklore