The Stone Cross backdrop

The Stone Cross 1968 Камінний хрест

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.

Production Country Soviet Union
Language Ukrainian
Spoken Language Ukrainian
Gneres Drama , History
Production Company Dovzhenko Film Studios
Release Date 7 March 1968
76 mins