Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales.

• Dovzhenko Film Studios
• Larysa Kadochnykova
• Boris Khmelnitsky
• Oleksandr Sergienko
• Davyd Yanover
• Dmytro Franko
• Yevgeni Fridman
• Gemma Firsova
• Konstantin Ershov