The Stone Cross (1968)
In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.
Director:
Leonid Osyka
Writer:
Ivan Drach
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Danylo Ilchenko as Ivan |
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Kateryna Mateyko as Ivanikha |
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Boryslav Brondukov as Boryslav Brondukov |
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Ivan Mykolaichuk as Mykola |
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Kostiantyn Stepankov as Mykhailo |
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Vasyl Symchych as Gazda Heorhiy |
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Borys Savchenko as Dmytro |
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Oleksa Atamanyuk as Son |
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Antonina Leftiy as Antonina |
| Directing | Leonid Osyka | Director |
| Writing | Ivan Drach | Screenplay |
| Camera | Valeriy Kvas | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Volodymyr Huba | Music |
| Writing | Vasyl Stefanyk | Short Story |
| Editing | Marfa Ponomarenko | Editor |
| Art | Nikolay Reznik | Production Design |
