Release Date: 1980-07-23
Overview: Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses the nymph, transforming her into a weeping willow. This beautiful and tragic story is based on a play written in 1912 by Lesya Ukrainka, a Ukrainian poet, writer and political, civil and female activist, and includes mythological characters taken from Ukrainian folklore.
Rating: 5.8 / 10
Liudmyla Yefymenko
as Mavka
Viktor Kremlev
as Lukash
Maya Bulgakova
as Lukash’s Mother
Ivan Mykolaichuk
as Uncle Leo / Wood Goblin
Boris Khmelnitsky
as Red (forest) Demon
Yurii Illienko - Director
Yurii Illienko - Screenplay
Yurii Illienko - Director of Photography
Anatoli Kovtun - Sound
Yevhen Stankovych - Original Music Composer
It seems that I have stumbled on one of Yuri Ilyenko’s masterpieces at last, a beautiful and tragic adaptation of a play (written in 1912) based around folklore. Mavka, a water nymph is enticed by a y...