Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
A New Kind of Ukrainian Film...acclaimed around the world at all film festivals
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Director
Actors
Ivan Mykolaichuk, Larysa Kadochnykova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Nikolay Grinko, Spartak Bagashvili, Leonid Yengibarov, Nina Alisova, Aleksandr Gai, Oleksandr Hai, Neonila Hnepovska
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Ivan Chendej, Sergei Parajanov
Producer
N. Yurieva
Camera operator
Composer
Myroslav Skoryk
Artist
Mikhail Rakovskiy, Heorhiy Yakutovych
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Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- During filming in the Carpathians, Sergei Parajanov and cinematographer Yuri Ilyenko had a terrible falling out. During another argument, Ilyenko told the director: “You will die tomorrow at six in the morning. I challenge you to a duel. We will shoot from six paces.” “We will shoot with Hutsul pistols,” Parajanov replied. They took the weapons from a local resident. Ilyenko himself made buckshot from tea and pages of the script. They arrived at the duel with seconds: Parajanov with his assistant, Ilyenko with his wife Larisa Kadonnikova and the director of the film studio. They arranged the meeting on an old bridge over the Cheremosh River. As soon as Ilyenko stepped onto it, the water washed away part of the beams, and the cinematographer himself had to be pulled out of the water. The duel was called off.
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