Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
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Cast & Crew.
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Ivan Paliychuk
Larysa Kadochnykova
Marichka Gutenyuk
Tatyana Bestayeva
Palagna
Nikolay Grinko
Batag
Spartak Bagashvili
Yurko Malfara
Leonid Yengibarov
Miko
Nina Alisova
Paliychuk, Ivan's Mother
Aleksandr Gai
Petro Paliychuk
Neonila Hnepovska
Gutenyuk
Aleksandr Raydanov
Onufriy Gutenyuk
Igor Dzyura
Young Ivan
Valentina Glinko
Young Marichka
Aleksey Borzunov
Narrator (voice)
Natalia Kandyba
Ganna Paliychuk (voice)
Suren Parajanov
Child (uncredited)
Heorhiy Yakutovych
Production Design
Sergei Parajanov
Writer / Director
Ivan Chendej
Writer
Viktor Bestayev
Cinematography
Yurii Illienko
Cinematography
Mikhail Rakovskiy
Production Design
Lidiya Baikova
Costume Design
Myroslav Skoryk
Music
Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi
Novel
Volodymyr Shikin
Makeup Artist
Vladimir Lugovskiy
Assistant Director
Sofiya Sergiyenko
Sound Engineer
Marfa Ponomarenko
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 18, 1965
Original NameТіні забутих предків
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
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This Movie Is About.
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, alternatively translated into English as Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors or Shadows of Our Ancestors (Ukrainian: Тіні забутих предків, romanized: Tini zabutykh predkiv), also known in English under the alternative title Wild Horses of Fire and under the mistaken title of In the Shadow of the Past, is a 1965 Soviet-era Ukrainian film by the filmmaker Sergei Parajanov based on the 1911 novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that tells a "Romeo and Juliet tale" of young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers trapped on opposite sides of a Carpathian family blood feud.
The film was Parajanov's first major work and earned him international acclaim for its rich use of costume and colour. The festival program from the 1966 edition of the New York Film Festival described the film as an "avant-garde, extravagant, sumptuous saga" and a "haunting work" that combined folk-songs and atonal music with fantastic camera work.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history, and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema.