The Enchanted Desna
1964Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet 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.
Acted in
Evgeniy Samoylov
as Writer
Vova Goncharov
as Sashko
Yevhen Bondarenko
as Father
Zinaida Kirienko
as Mother
Boris Andreyev
as Platon
Ivan Pereverzev
as construction manager
Iya Marks
as probaba
Grigori Zaslavets
as Savka
Vladimir Gusev
as Kolodub
Anatoli Yushko
as Drobot
Vyacheslav Voronin
as Troyanda
Ivan Zhevago
as father Kirill
Boris Yurchenko
as dyak Luka
Vladimir Perepelyuk
as bandura player
Mikhail Gladysh
as Makar
Oleksandr Romanenko
as Samoylo