Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 4K 1965 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

For decades, two Hutsul clans—the Paliychuks and the Gutenyuks—had been at odds. But it so happened that Ivan Paliychuk fell in love with a beautiful woman from the rival clan—Marichka, the daughter of his father’s murderer, who was destined to live a short but happy life. Ivanko could not be happy without her. But he carried on with his life. He got married. He was loved. He had no children. He ran his household. And he sought the death that had taken his beloved from him...

Review 4K Movie

The first great film from the greatest director in post-war Soviet Union. The experience is almost like being strapped to a malfunctioning rollercoaster, as a relatively straightforward story - young man falls in love with neighbour; she dies; he mourns; remarries; still loves dead mate (Wuthering Heights anyone?) - is violently attacked by hurling camera movements that reveal the most vertiginous spaces, both exterior and interior; bizarre angles (eg from a falling tree); a restless mix of music from Kusturica-like horn blowers, shards of modernism and thrilling Romanticism; content that blends myth, dreams, legends, folk tales etc.; and editing that bewilders and disrupts rather than matches and connects. A brilliant recreation of a forgotten culture and times that was a dangerous two-fingers to totalitarianism.