Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

1965

Ukrainian

7.8

♡ 9

Action

based on novel or book

Sergei Parajanov Director

Aleksandr Raydanov as Father of Marichka

Igor Dzyura as Ivan

Valentina Glinko as Marichka

Neonila Gnepovskaya as Mother of Marichka

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.