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The Stone Cross

Not Rated Drama History

Starring: Danylo Ilchenko, Kateryna Mateyko, Boryslav Brondukov, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Kostiantyn Stepankov

Writer: Ivan Drach, Vasyl Stefanyk

Release Date:
March 7, 1968
Ratings:
6.3 / 10
Director:
Leonid Osyka
Companies:
Dovzhenko Film Studios

Overview

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.