Folk Film Gathering - The Enchanted Desna (1964)
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Folk Film Gathering - The Enchanted Desna (1964)

THE ENCHANTED DESNA is a rhapsodic invocation of the natural world, and of a childhood spent on the banks of the Desna river, in Chernihiv.

By Grassmarket Community Picture House

Date and time

Wednesday, April 30 · 7 - 9pm GMT+1

Location

Grassmarket Community Project & Coffee Saints Cafe

86 Candlemaker Row Edinburgh EH1 2QA United Kingdom

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

THE ENCHANTED DESNA
Yuliya Solntseva, Ukraine, 1964
Praised by Jean-Luc Godard, THE ENCHANTED DESNA is a magical-realist exploration of the childhood of Ukraine’s greatest filmmaker, Alexander Dovzhenko, directed by the filmmaker’s widow, Yuliya Solntseva. Drawing on the unique qualities of Ukrainian poetic cinema, THE ENCHANTED DESNA is a rhapsodic invocation of the natural world, and of a childhood spent on the banks of the Desna river, in Chernihiv. The screening will be introduced by Edinburgh’s Ukrainian Choir.

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Runtime -101 minutes

The film will start promptly at 7pm without trailers.

Light refreshments will be available for sale

Grassmarket Community Project is a wheelchair-accessible venue.

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