Original title: Rakhira

Copyright: Ministry of Tourism and Culture of Ukraine, 2010

Produced by Kiev National Ivan Karpenko-Kary University for Theatre, Cinema, and Television and the Oleksander Dovzhenko motion pictures studio.

Format: feature short

Carrier: DVD

Color: color

Length: 19 min.

Original language: Ukrainian

English subtitles: yes

Film crew

Script writer and director: Marian Bushan

Cinematographer: Illia Ilchenko

Art director: Oleksandra Pliuta

Composer: Roman Hrynkiv

Film cast

Alla Bineeva as Rakhira

Maksym Tsedzinsky as Sava

Petro Sova as Mikhailo

Raisa Nedashkivska as Fortuneteller

Stefan Mertsalo as Ivonika

Lubov Lapia as Mariyka

Synopsis

The film is based on the novel "Land" by Olha Kobylianska. The events take place at the end of the 19th century in rural Western Ukraine. Sava, a younger son of a farmer, is madly in love with a beautiful Gypsy woman Rakhira. Using her diabolic charms Rakhira pushes Sava to get the best part of his parents’ land that is to become the property of his hard-working elder brother Mykhailo. The two brothers are on a collision course that does not bode well for any one of them.