Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
A New Kind of Ukrainian Film...acclaimed around the world at all film festivals
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10/18/1965Runtime
96 minsOverview
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.
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A haunting visual poem about star-crossed lovers in the Carpathians, where ancient custom and ancestral blood feuds doom their romance. Sergei Parajanov crafts a film that feels less like narrative cinema and more like a moving, mythic painting, gorgeously strange and deeply mournful.
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Ivan Mykolaichuk
Ivan Paliychuk
Larysa Kadochnykova
Marichka Gutenyuk
Tatyana Bestayeva
Palagna
Mykola Hrynko
Batag
Spartak Bagashvili
Yurko Malfara
Leonid Yengibarov
Miko
Nina Alisova
Paliychuk, Ivan's Mother
Oleksandr Hai
Petro Paliychuk
Neonila Hnepovska
Gutenyuk
Aleksandr Raydanov
Onufriy Gutenyuk
Igor Dzyura
Young Ivan
Valentina Glinko
Young Marichka
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