The Enchanted Desna
The Enchanted Desna

The Enchanted Desna

5.6(14 votes)
1964
1h 17m
Drama
War
Fantasy

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian 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.

Production

Mosfilm, Dovzhenko Film Studios

Cast

Evgeniy Samoylov

Evgeniy Samoylov

Writer

Vova Goncharov

Vova Goncharov

Sashko

Yevhen Bondarenko

Yevhen Bondarenko

Father

Zinaida Kirienko

Zinaida Kirienko

Mother

Boris Andreyev

Boris Andreyev

Platon

Ivan Pereverzev

Ivan Pereverzev

construction manager

Iya Marks

Iya Marks

probaba

Grigori Zaslavets

Grigori Zaslavets

Savka

Vladimir Gusev

Vladimir Gusev

Kolodub

Anatoli Yushko

Anatoli Yushko

Drobot

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