Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales.

• DirectorYurii Illienko
• Release25 December 1968
• Genre
  Drama / Fantasy
• Duration1h 11m
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  6.9
  18 reviews
• Productions

  Dovzhenko Film Studios