The Enchanted Desna

Fantasy · 1964

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.

Starring

Evgeniy Samoylov, Yuliya Solntseva, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Boris Andreyev, Volodymyr Honcharov, Aleksandr Borisov, Yevgeni Bondarenko, Yevgeni Bondarenko, Gavriil Popov, Zinaida Kirienko, Aleksei Temerin, Gavriil Popov, Volodymyr Honcharov, Zinaida Kirienko, Boris Andreyev, Aleksei Temerin, Lyudmila Pechiyeva

Director

Yuliya Solntseva