The Enchanted Desna
1964
77 minutes
Overview
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.
Top Cast
Evgeniy Samoylov
Writer
Vova Goncharov
Sashko
Yevhen Bondarenko
Father
Zinaida Kirienko
Mother
Boris Andreyev
Platon
Ivan Pereverzev
construction manager
Iya Marks
probaba
Grigori Zaslavets
Savka
Vladimir Gusev
Kolodub
Anatoli Yushko
Drobot
Vyacheslav Voronin
Troyanda
Ivan Zhevago
father Kirill
Boris Yurchenko
dyak Luka
Vladimir Perepelyuk
bandura player
Mikhail Gladysh
Makar
Oleksandr Romanenko
Samoylo