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Ukraine | 1981 | Feature Film | 83’ | Original Version with English Subtitles
Rusnak isa peasant who leaves for Canada in search of a better life and later returns home with his granddaughter Orysia. Through the character of Orysia, Ivan Mykolaychuk explores national consciousness: in Bukovyna, Orysia falls in love with a local boy and realizes her own identity. It was Ivan Mykolaychuk who played the handsome village boy Hryhor, with whom Orysia falls in love.