Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
With Ivan Mykolaichuk, Nikolai Grinko, Leonid Yengibarov, Nina Alisova, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Directed by Sergei Parajanov
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, alternatively translated into English as Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors or Shadows of Our Ancestors (Ukrainian: «Тіні забутих предків», romanized: Tini zabutykh predkiv, pronounced [ˈt⁽ʲ⁾in⁽ʲ⁾i zɐˈbutɪx ˈprɛdkiu̯]), also known in English under the alternative title Wild Horses of Fire and under the mistaken title of In the Shadow of the Past, is a 1965 Soviet-era Ukrainian film directed by Sergei Parajanov. Based on the 1911 novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Ukrainian author Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, it tells a "Romeo and Juliet tale" of young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers trapped on opposite sides of a Carpathian family blood feud.
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