The Enchanted Desna

The Enchanted Desna

5.6

Dec 07 1964

1h 17m

Drama, War

Based 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.

Evgeniy Samoylov

Evgeniy Samoylov

Writer

Vova Goncharov

Vova Goncharov

Sashko

Yevhen Bondarenko

Yevhen Bondarenko

Father

Zinaida Kirienko

Zinaida Kirienko

Mother