Original subtitles

The Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film studio

The First Creative Union

Bandura player has finished his song,

still young and old could not come to their senses...

And they have been standing with their heads down

reflecting on the awful things,

which happened years ago.

THE EVE OF IVAN KUPALA

Variations on themes

of short novels by M.V. Hohol

and Ukrainian folk bales

Film by Yurii Illienko

Director of photography Vadym Illienko

Drawings by V. Levental

Original music by L. Hrabovskyi Sound editor L. Vachi

Production designers: P. Maksymenko, V. Novakov

Set decorator M. Tereschenko Costume designer L. Baikova

Set design by V. Lemport, Ye. Myronova Assistant director L. Kolesnyk

Cinematography by V. Kaliuta Makeup designer Ya. Hrinberh

Supervising editor Yu. Parkhomenko Film editor N. Pyschykova

Second Assistant directors: E. Illienko, L. Kustova, I. Miliutenko, H. Diulherov

Assistant camera: O. Naida, M. Stepanova, Yu. Tymoschuk

Assistant art director S. Brzhestovskyi

Visual effects designer V. Tsyrlin Visual effects camera operator H. Syhalov

Visual effects colour solarization - Camera operator D. Vakuliuk

The State Symphony Orchestra of the Ukrainian SSR

Conductor V. Kozhukhar

Literary consultant V. Turbin Production manager D. Yanover

Cast: Larysa Kadochnikova, Boris Khmel'nitskiy

Basavriuk - Ye. Fridman Korzh - D. Franko

Suitors - B. Brondukov, M. Illienko, V. Panchenko

Priest - K. Yershov Master - D. Yanover

Witch - D. Mikosha, S. Pidlisna

Tavern keeper - M. Sylis Ivas - Sashko Serhiienko

Also: I. Vykhrystiuk, H. Diulherov,

L. Kolesnyk, V. Lysytsyn, V. Lemport,

N. Manzii, S. Mykhai, I. Miliutenko,

V. Saunin, M. Chynkurov, S. Yakutovych,

the blind people, horsemen, residents of the village of Buchak

Petrol Listen Petrol

If you come up my daughter once again

or just come up her windows...

...then, listen, listen Petro, I swear...

- ...then, listen, listen Petro, I swear... - Dad, daddy, don't beat Petrus!

...I swear your black moustaches disappear,

or my name is not Terentii Korzh.

- Oh, please.

- Oh, please. - Glory to Jesus, Mr. Korzh.

I come to you in business.

It's well known, master, why they come to father

when there is a black-brewed daughter about.

God bless.

I bless too.

Give my daughter to you.

Basavriuk!

- Lads! Lads! Basavriuk came!

- Lads! Lads! Basavriuk came! - Basavriuk came!..

Hey guys! Let's go on the spree!

Hey, serve horilka here now!

- Take the sheepskin off at least!

- Take the sheepskin off at least! - Look, what a sweat thing!

- I don't want.

- I don't want. - But why?

- I just can't.

- I just can't. - But why?

I can't because as I take it off I guzzle it all away.

- Oh demons! Rowdies! - Hey guys!

- Oh guys... - Give some horilka to the priest.

- Oh you're gonna burn in hell.

- Oh you're gonna burn in hell. - Let him dance with us!

- And you burn too. - Oh! You preaching?

- Lift the priest up the kliros guys! - Guys, come round.

Guys!

Don't do it. Don't touch me guys, don't! Don't.

Christians! People!

What is going on, what's going on!

- Mykola! Petro, Nychypor! - What?

Hey guys, you will burn, you will burn...

- ...in hell in the afterworld, you'll dance in hell. - We are going to burn.

- Go get the priest up the pear!..

- Go get the priest up the pear!.. - I tell you, you will burn in hell!

- Bring him! - Oh guys, come round!

Bring, bring... him!

Don't, don't do it guys, guys!

There? No, I'm not climbing...

I'm not climbing, I'm infirm, guys!

Most Holy Theotokos, save us...

A-ah... That's all... I, by myself, by myself... I'm climbing, climbing...

I'm up...

Oh.Ah...

Start cuckoo reverend father, and I'm gonna go hunting you. Hey ho!

Cuckoo... Cuckoo...

- Ha-ha-ha! - Cuckoo... Cuckoo...

Heaven knows Basavriuk, I will impose penance upon you... Cuckoo... cuckoo...

You do roister, and don't visit... cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo...

the holy church, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo!.

Listen, father,

cuckoo better and learn to mind your own business and don't hinder the others!

Cuckoo if you don't want your goat throat

to be stuck with boiling kutia.

- Cuckoo, cuckoo! ..

- Cuckoo, cuckoo!.. - Come on guys!

- Hey guys! Drink and party! - Hop, hop, hop, hop!

People! ..

Everyone who keeps company with Basavriuk

I shall consider the Catholic

and the enemy of Christ's church

and the whole mankind.

Petro !

Ivas, my dear, my sweet Ivas! Run to Petro, my child of gold,

like an arrow from a bow. Tell him everything.

I'd love his brown eyes, I'd kiss his white face,

but my fate decrees otherwise.

More than one handkerchief have I wet with burning tears.

I am sad and heavy at heart!

And my own father is an enemy to me

forcing me to marry the unloved.

Tell him they prepare the wedding,

but there will be no musicians at our wedding.

The sextons will sing instead of kobzas and pipes.

I'm no going to dance with my dear:

they will carry me out.

Dark, dark will be my house,

Dark, dark will be my house, made of maple wood,

and instead of chimney a cross will stand upon the roof.

But I thought...

And I, the miserable, thought of going to the Crimea,

to win gold and come back to you my honey.

But it may not be! Evil eye put on us!

There will be, there will be my wedding, sweetie,

with no sextons there -

the crow is gonna croak over me instead of the priest!

Flat field will be my house,

grey cloud will be my ceiling,

the eagle will peck my brown eyes out,

the rains will wash my Cossack bones

and the whirlwind will dry them!

But who am I?

But who am I? For whom?

And to whom

And to whom should I complain?

That must be

That must be God's will -

if I am to be lost, then so be it!

".. That black

". . that black thundercloud,

It was beginning

It was beginning to rain.

Oh, the ragged

Oh, the ragged rabble gathered

In a tavern

In a tavern to go on the spree!”

Beggar...

Oh.

Drink

Drink it...

I know,

I know, I know what you lack.

Stop mourning Cossack. Look what you lack.

How it jingles,

how it shines!

And I only ask one thing for a whole pile of such shiners!..

Look Petro, don't miss it.

Only one this one night

Only one this one night does the fern blossom.

I'll be waiting for you

at midnight

at midnight in the Bear's ravine.

Petro !

As soon as the fern blossoms

grab it

and don't turn around.

May the strange force keep you from turning around,

no matter what may seem to be going on behind thee.

Look Petra,

a charmer will stand before you now,

do whatever she says

do whatever she says or you are lost forever.

There.

Dig here Petro.

Dig here Petro. Here you'll see so much gold

neither you nor Korzh just have dreamt about.

You shall not have the gold

until you shed human blood.

Ha-ha-ha! Cut the child down, cut it, cut it, ha-ha-ha-ha!

Oh, killed, killed!

- Killed!

- Killed! - Killed!

- Murderer!

- Murderer! - Blood!

- Murderer! Murderer!

- Murderer! Murderer! - Point to him, to him! Murderer!

Killed!

Cut the child down, cut it!..

- Is that all gold?

- Is that all gold? - Gold.

- All yours?

- All yours? - Ours.

Oh... how much.

About three bags.

You know Petra, gipsies had stolen Ivas.

- What Ivas?

- What Ivas? - Oh!..

Oar straight, children,

to ensure the harmony and consent inside the family,

the token says.

Carry them

Carry them Dnipro

but don't stir them up.

Petro !

Petro !

- Bitter! - Bitter!

Bitter! Bitter!

- Bitter! Bitter! - Bitter!

Where from if not from the tempter of orthodox people, my Goodness...

...the wealth came to him?

...the wealth came to him? My Goodness...

- Where from did he get such a lot of gold? Eh?

- Where from did he get such a lot of gold? Eh? - Aha!

Why did he get rich the same day

Why did he get rich the same day as Basavriuk vanished without a trace?

- Why? - Aha, aha, aha, aha!

Oh God...

- Come on, give us the gold. - Give it, give it.

Give the sack.

Hop-hop. Hop-hop. Toro-toro.

Petra, Petra, what are you doing?

Petra, Petra, what are you doing? You'll burn the house.

Stop!

- Hop-hop, hop-hop.

- Hop-hop, hop-hop. - Toro-toro, toro-toro.

- Hop-hop...

- Hop-hop... - Toro-toro...

Hop-hop...

- Hop-hop... - Hop-hop...

Hop-hop!

- Hop-hop.

- Hop-hop- - Hop-hop...

- Hop! Hop.

- Hop! Hop. - Toro-toro...

Hop-hop.

Good horse, good horse.

Hop-hop, toro-toro, hop-hop, taro-tore, hop.

Hop-hop.

Look,

Look, tell me what horse have you got?

The gypsies stole my horse away.

The gypsies stole my horse away. Hop-hop.

Toro-toro,

Toro-toro, hop-hop, taro-tore, hop-hop...

...toro-toro. Where do you come from man,

...toro-toro. Where do you come from man, why do you come here?

Hop-hop!

I can't, the gypsies stole my horse away.

HOD- hop!

Hop- hop, toro.

Petro !

Petro ! Petro !

Pour

Pour the fear out -

it's the fright inside you.

Let's find where it comes from.

Look, what's that?

- A child.

- A child. - A child?

No.

Forgotten.

- Who are you?

- Who are you? - I'm Pidorka.

- Where d'you go?

- Where d'you go? - To get the Theotokos' tears.

- Why do you need the Theotokos' tears?

- Why do you need the Theotokos' tears? - To cure Petro.

Girls, come again.

Bah! Bah...

Bah! Bah... I know what you want.

I can help your trouble.

I can help your trouble. Come to me in the evening...

- Begone, begone the Evil One!

- Begone, begone the Evil One! - ...or in the night.

Where do you go, good people?

To harvest pears from willow. People say Petro harvested three bags of golden pears.

But it's water here.

- Serve the ferry!

- Serve the ferry! - Ferry! Ferry!

- We're drowning!

- We're drowning! - Save us!

You knew where that gold had come from, didn't you? Ha-ha-ha...

- From me you won't escape, you won't. - Cuckoo... cuckoo...

It's not human, cuckoo! It's Satan had assumed human form

to unearth treasures. Because the treasure does not yield to unclean hands...

Cuckoo. ...it seduces young men...

- Ha-ha!

- Ha-ha! - Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo.

- Ha-ha!

- Ha-ha! - Cuckoo!

- Ha-ha-ha!..

- Ha-ha-ha!.. - Cuckoo...

Go father, mother called for dinner.

- What have you cooked?

- What have you cooked? - Mother said nothing.

- Got bread?

- Got bread? - Where could it come from? No.

Never mind... Go, or Petra will cut you down very likely...

I'll prance here with the good people.

Whoa, whoa... whoa!..

- Petra, where did you get the gold?

- Petro, where did you get the gold? - Drown these sacks in the Dnipro.

Confess to people.

- You can't run away from people.

- You can't run away from people. - You can't run away from yourself.

You can't run away from yourself.

Calm down

Calm down dean

It seems like everything comes back

It seems like everything comes back at the beginning,

and again everything disappeared.

I remember

sitting at the tavern,

...they bring me horilka...

- The horilka stings...

- The horilka stings... - Darling!

...ugly to me horilka!

Cluck-cluck! Cluck-cluck, cluck-cluck, Cluck-cluck!

Don't look there, don't, you'd better drink, drink it.

How are you doing, fellow?

- Just fell of the mill.

- Just fell of the mill. - That's bad.

- Well, not that bad.

- Well, not that bad. - Why?

- Found a kopeck.

- Found a kopeck. - That's good.

- Well, not that good.

- Well, not that good. - Why?

- It's holed and dirty.

- It's holed and dirty. - That's bad.

- Well, not that bad.

- Well, not that bad. - Why?

- Bought some nuts.

- Bought some nuts. - That's good.

- Well, not that good.

- Well, not that good. - Why?

- Wormy.

- Wormy. - That's bad.

- Well, not that bad.

- Well, not that bad. - Why?

- The hog ate them.

- The hog ate them. - That's good.

- Well, not that good.

- Well, not that good. - Why?

The wolf ate the hog.

Ha... Ha-ha!

Ha... Ha-ha! I have remembered!

Ha-ha-ha-ha! I have remembered!

Ha-ha-ha-ha! I have remembered! Ha-ha-ha-ha!

- I have remembered!

- I have remembered! - Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Oh my husband, is that you lying here?

Get up my dear,

Get up my dear, lend your hand,

get up,

get up, look at your Pidorka at least once...

Move your lips,

Move your lips, say one single word...

Why are you so cold?

It looks like my tears don't burn,

It looks like my tears don't burn, can't warm you up.

Bury me,

Bury me, bury me with him,

sift my eyes with ground,

lay the boards of maple wood over my white chest...

Set your mind at rest, my dear sister, I'll call for sorceress,

- ...she's gonna pour your fear out.

- ...she's gonna pour your fear out. - No, no,

no one's gonna

no one's gonna dispel my grief.

Don't grieve dear,

Don't grieve dear, you still can return him,

gather all his rests,

gather all his rests, bring them to Kyiv,

to the miracle working icon of the Theotokos.

That icon weeps day and night long,

and when you asperse the rests

and when you asperse the rests with those burning tears

your Petro will be back to life, he will.

The Theotokos is kind. Don't cry, your trouble will suffice her tears.

Carry the ashes to Lavra,

Carry the ashes to Lavra, ask for the Theotokos' tears

over the Petro's body, over Petro's bones...

over Petro's sinful soul.

Potiomkin why aren't they dancing hopak? (speaks Russian)

You must've forbidden them?

I know my people, as the sun goes up

they start dancing hopak and drinking horilka.

Now it's

Now it's right.

The Theotokos is kind, we suffice her tears.

Shed

Shed a tear!

Shed

Shed a tear!

Shed

Shed a tear!

Shed

Shed a tear!

Shed a tear! Shed a tear!

Forgive!

Forgive! Forgive!

Forgive!

Forgive! Forgive!

Shed a tear!

Make a miracle! Make a miracle, make a miracle!

Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle!

Shed a tear, shed a tear, shed a tear!

- Weep the Most Holy Theotokos!

- Weep the Most Holy Theotokos! - Shed a tear, shed a tear!

Drop a tear!

Shed a tear!

Shed a tear! Cry!

Cry!

Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle!

Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle!

- The inevitable

- The inevitable occurred!

That's the miracle!

Miracle!

"Rock-a-bye,

"Rock-a -b ye, rock-a -b ye,

"Rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye,

Rock-a-bye

Rock-a-bye sonny

Rock-a-bye sonny rock-a-bye.

Grow up

Grow up for fun,

To deal with the

To deal with the enemies. ”

The End