In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart.
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Ivan Mykolaichuk
Ivan Paliychuk
Larysa Kadochnykova
Marichka Gutenyuk
Tatyana Bestayeva
Palagna
Mykola Hrynko
Batag
Spartak Bagashvili
Yurko Malfara
Leonid Yengibarov
Miko
Nina Alisova
Paliychuk, Ivan's Mother
Oleksandr Hai
Petro Paliychuk
Neonila Hnepovska
Gutenyuk
Aleksandr Raydanov
Onufriy Gutenyuk
Igor Dzyura
Young Ivan
Valentina Glinko
Young Marichka
Aleksey Borzunov
Narrator (voice)
Natalia Kandyba
Ganna Paliychuk (voice)
Suren Parajanov
Child (uncredited)
Sergei Parajanov
Director
Sergei Parajanov
Writer
Ivan Chendej
Writer
Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi
Novel
N. Yurieva
Executive Producer
Yurii Illienko
Director of Photography
Myroslav Skoryk
Original Music Composer
Marfa Ponomarenko
Editor
Lidiya Baikova
Costume Design
Mikhail Rakovskiy
Production Design
Heorhiy Yakutovych
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