The Stone Cross

1968· 76 min★ 7.5· Drama, History

In 1890s Western Ukraine, Ivan Didukh, a proud and ripe Galician farmer, has decided to abandon his ancestral home to emigrate to Canada in search of a better life. His final hours are clouded by both internal and communal discord as his village convenes to ceremonially mark his departure. The celebrations that echo those of a funeral, forecast the imminent death of a man estranged from his motherland, and of an antiquated way of life on the cusp of obsoletion.

Cast: Danylo Ilchenko, Kateryna Mateyko, Boryslav Brondukov

Director: Leonid Osyka