
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors(1965)
A New Kind of Ukrainian Film...acclaimed around the world at all film festivals
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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