Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Country
- Russia
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Ukrainian — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- sorcery
- forbidden love
- rivalry
- sorcerer
- star crossed lovers
- carpathians
- rusyn
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Ivan Paliychuk
Larysa Kadochnykova
Marichka Gutenyuk
Tatyana Bestayeva
Palagna
Mykola Hrynko
Batag
- Spartak Bagashvili — Yurko Malfara
- Leonid Yengibarov — Miko
- Nina Alisova — Paliychuk, Ivan's Mother
- Oleksandr Hai — Petro Paliychuk
- Neonila Hnepovska — Gutenyuk
- Aleksandr Raydanov — Onufriy Gutenyuk
- Igor Dzyura — Young Ivan
- Valentina Glinko — Young Marichka
- Aleksey Borzunov — Narrator (voice)
- Natalia Kandyba — Ganna Paliychuk (voice)
- Suren Parajanov — Child (uncredited)
- Directed
- Sergei Parajanov
- Written
- Sergei Parajanov, Ivan Chendej
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 185 ratings
- Studio
- Dovzhenko Film Studios
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
