The Enchanted Desna

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian 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.

Cast

Evgeniy Samoylov

Writer

Vova Goncharov

Sashko

Yevhen Bondarenko

Father

Zinaida Kirienko

Mother

Borys Andreiev

Platon

Ivan Pereverzev

construction manager

Iya Marks

probaba

Grigori Zaslavets

Savka

Vladimir Gusev

Kolodub

Anatoli Yushko

Drobot