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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Directed by Sergei Parajanov
1965    1h 36mDrama, Romance
7.893%88%
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.
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Cast of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
  • Ivan MykolaichukIvan Paliychuk
  • Larysa KadochnykovaMarichka Gutenyuk
  • Tatyana BestayevaPalagna
  • Nikolay GrinkoBatag
  • Spartak BagashviliYurko Malfara
  • Leonid YengibarovMiko
  • Nina AlisovaPaliychuk, Ivan's Mother
  • Oleksandr HaiPetro Paliychuk
  • Neonila HnepovskaGutenyuk
  • Aleksandr RaydanovOnufriy Gutenyuk
  • Igor DzyuraYoung Ivan
  • Valentina GlinkoYoung Marichka
  • Aleksey BorzunovNarrator (voice)
  • Natalia KandybaGanna Paliychuk (voice)
  • Suren ParajanovChild (uncredited)
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