Oct 18, 1965
96 min
Full-HD

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)

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.

Category

Drama Romance

Country

Soviet Union

Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

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

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