The story is based on a play by Ivan Kocherha about love against the backdrop of the craftsmen's uprising in Kyiv in the 16th century. The drama and the animation take place simultaneously in Podil, the center of bourgeois and craftsman life, and on mount Vzdykhalnytsia, where the Lithuanian castle is located. The director Tadeush Pavlenko takes the last three acts of Kocherha's play as a basis, placing the female character Melanka, the beloved of Ivan Svichka, at the center of the plot.
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Tadeush Pavlenko Director · Borys Kryzhanivskyi Writer Ivan Kocherha Author
First release January 1, 1982 · Produced in Russia · Original title Свіччине весілля
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Kyivnaukfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Свіччине весілля
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Ukrainian
Release dates
Russia · January 1, 1982
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No release date listed for United States.
Ukraine
May 24, 2023 · Digital · Premiere of the Restored Original Ukrainian Version by Dovzhenko Centre
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