The Enchanted Desna
Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Soviet film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two parts. The first is the world shown through the impressions of the six-year-old Sashko. The second is the recollections and reasoning of Sashko, now an elderly colonel who liberates his native village during the war.
- Year: 1964
- Country: Soviet Union
- Genre: Drama, War
- Studio: Mosfilm, Dovzhenko Film Studios
- Keyword: woman director, ukrainian folklore
- Director: Yuliya Solntseva
- Cast: Evgeniy Samoylov, Vova Goncharov, Yevhen Bondarenko, Zinaida Kirienko, Boris Andreyev, Ivan Pereverzev