The Enchanted Desna

Synopsis

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.

Director

Yuliya Solntseva

Written by

Alexander Dovzhenko

Music

Gavriil Popov

Studio

Mosfilm

Released

7 December 1964

Genres

Drama, War, Fantasy