Zacharovannaya Desna 1964

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.

Cast:

Evgeniy Samoylov
Writer 

Vova Goncharov
Sashko 

Yevhen Bondarenko
Father 

Zinaida Kirienko
Mother 

Boris Andreyev
Platon 

Ivan Pereverzev
construction manager 

• Die verzauberte Desna
• The Enchanted Desna