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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

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1965

In the Carpathian mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, a Hutsul man is bound by fate to the daughter of the family that killed his father, in a passionate, tragic love steeped in folk ritual and the rhythms of nature. Sergei Parajanov's ecstatic, ravishing visual poem.

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