Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

• 7.6 Drama
• 1965-10-18
• 96 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Ivan Mykolaichuk (Ivan Paliychuk) Larysa Kadochnykova (Marichka Gutenyuk) Tatyana Bestayeva (Palagna) Nikolay Grinko (Batag) Spartak Bagashvili (Yurko Malfara) Leonid Yengibarov (Miko) Nina Alisova (Paliychuk, Ivan's Mother) Aleksandr Gai (Petro Paliychuk) Neonila Hnepovska (Gutenyuk) Aleksandr Raydanov (Onufriy Gutenyuk)

Director:

Sergei Parajanov

Writer:

Sergei Parajanov Ivan Chendej