The Enchanted Desna

12/07/1964

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1hr 17min

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Drama

,War

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Evgeniy Samoylov
  • Vova Goncharov
  • Yevhen Bondarenko
  • Zinaida Kirienko
  • Boris Andreyev

    Directors

  • Yuliya Solntseva
  • Oleksandr Dovzhenko

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Mosfilm
  • Dovzhenko Film Studios

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • Russian
  • Ukrainian