Original title: Vechir na Ivana Kupala.
Copyright: the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1968.
Format: feature narrative
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 72 min.
Original language: Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Yuri Illienko
Script writer: Yuri Illienko
Director of photography: Vadym Illienko
Original music: Leonid Hrabovsky
Production designers: Petro Myksymenko and Valerii Novakov
Sound editor: Leonid Vachi
Produced by the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Film cast
Larysa Kadochnykova as Pidorka, Borys Khmelnytsky as Petro, Yevhen Frydman as Basavriuk, Dmytro Franko as Korzh, David Yanover as the master, Kostiantyn Yershov as the priest, Dzhemma Firsova as the witch, Mykola Sylis as the tavern-keeper, Boryslav Brondukov, Mykhailo Illienko, and Viktor Panchenko as the suitors, Sashko Serhienko as Ivas.

Synopsis
The film has been inspired by Mykola Hohol's short stories and Ukrainian folk tales. A poor young man Petro is in love with Pidorka. Predictably her father is against their marriage. An evil man Basavriuk persuades Petro to commit murder in order to gain much needed wealth. Petro and Pidorka can finally get married. But the blood spilled is a curse for their marriage. Eventually Petro loses his mind and gets killed, their household goes up in smoke, destroyed by a fire. Pidorka has to atone for the sin's of her beloved.
The film has been restored and digitally re-mastered as part of the 7-disk DVD gift set "Ukrainian Film Classics. Yuri Illienko," issued by the National Oleksander Dovzhenko Center in 2011.