The Stone Cross
(1968)
★ 6.5 IMDb · 12 votes
Year: 1968
Runtime: 81 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Леонид Осыка
Cast: Даниил Ильченко, Kateryna Mateyko, Борислав Брондуков, Иван Миколайчук, Константин Степанков, Василий Симчич, Борис Савченко, Oleksa Atamanyuk, Антонина Лефтий
Plot
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.