In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.

• DirectorLeonid Osyka
• Release7 March 1968
• Genre
  Drama / History
• Duration1h 16m
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  6.3
  11 reviews
• Productions

  Dovzhenko Film Studios