The Enchanted Desna backdrop

The Enchanted Desna 1964 Зачарована Десна

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian 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.

Production Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Spoken Languages Russian , Ukrainian
Gneres Drama , Fantasy , War
Production Companies Mosfilm , Dovzhenko Film Studios
Release Date 7 December 1964
77 mins