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.
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Edited by Valentina KorovkinaShot by Aleksei TemerinScored by Gavriil PopovDesigned by Aleksandr Borisov
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17 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Evgeniy Samoylov
as Aleksandr Petrovich - pisatel
Vladimir Goncharov
as Sashko
Evgeniy Bondarenko
as Mykola - otets
Zinaida Kirienko
as Odarka - maty
Boris Andreyev
as Platon Poltorak
Ivan Pereverzev
as Nachalnik stroitelstva
Iya Marks
as Probaba
V Orlovsky
as ded Semyon
Grigoriy Zaslavets
as Savka
Vladimir Gusev
as Petro Kolodub - kapitan
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