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Ivan  Mykolaichuk was a Ukrainian actor, producer and screen writer. He is best known for playing the Hutsul Ivan in ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors’ (1964). He received the title of "Meritorious Artist" in 1968. He posthumously received the Taras Shevcenko prize.

Mykolaichuk was born in a village of Chortoryia in Western Ukraine in a family of peasants. In 1957 he finished the Chernivtsi Music College and in 1961 he graduated from the theater-studio of the Chernivtsi Music-Drama Theater after Kobylyanska.

His films were often controversial and suppressed by the Soviet authorities; sometimes his films were banned from being screened by the KGB. Due to incidents with the Paradzhanov's film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" Mykolaichuk was banned from film industry for some five years by the party authorities being recognized as too nationalistic and a person of hostile ideology. In 1979 with the help of Volodymyr Ivashko he was given permission to participate in the movie ‘Babylon XX’ ("Вавилон ХХ").

Mykolaichuk died in August 1987 at the age of 46. He left a lasting legacy on Ukrainian film. Many consider him to be the greatest actor in the history of Ukrainian Cinematography who  inspired other Ukrainian artists, actors, singers and writers.

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Larysa Kadochnikova was born on August 30, 1937 in Moscow. She is a Ukrainian and Russian actress. She appeared in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" in 1964 and "The Eve of Ivan Kupalo".

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In a small Hutsul village in the Carpathian mountains of Ukraine, a young man, Ivan, falls in love with the daughter of the man who killed his father. Though their families share a bitter enmity, Ivan and Marichka have known each other since childhood. In preparation for their marriage, Ivan leaves the village to work and earn money for a household. While he is gone, Marichka accidentally slips into a river and drowns while trying to rescue a lost lamb.

Ivan returns and falls into despair after seeing Marichka's body. He continues to work, enduring a period of joyless toil, until he meets another woman, Palagna, while shoeing a horse. Ivan and Palagna get married in a traditional Hutsulwedding in which they are blindfolded and yoked together. The marriage quickly turns sour, however, as Ivan remains obsessed with the memory of Marichka. Estranged from her emotionally distant husband, Palagna becomes involved with a local sorcerer, while Ivan begins to experience hallucinations.

At a tavern, Ivan witnesses the sorcerer embrace Palagna and strike one of his friends. Roused into an uncharacteristic fury, Ivan snatches up his axe, only to be struck down by the sorcerer. Ivan stumbles into the nearby woods and perceives Marichka's spirit to be with him, reflected in the water and gliding amongst the trees. As reality merges into dream, the colorless shade of Marichka reaches out across a great space and touches Ivan's outstretched hand. Ivan screams and dies. The community gives him a traditional Hutsul burial while children watch through crossbraced windows.

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One of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema Sergei Paradzhanov was born in Georgia to Armenian parents. After studying film and music, Paradzhanov became an assistant director at the Dovzhenko studios in Kiev, making his directorial debut in 1954, following that with numerous shorts and features, all of which he subsequently dismissed as "garbage". However, in 1964 he was able to make "Snadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (1965), a rhapsodic celebration of Ukrainian folk culture, and the world discovered a startling and idiosyncratic new talent. He followed this up with the even more innovative "Pomegranates colour" (1969) (which explored the art and poetry of his native Armenia in a series of stunningly beautiful tableaux), but by this stage the authorities had had enough, and Paradzhanov spent most of the 1970s in prison on almost certainly rigged charges of "homosexuality and illegal trafficking in religious icons". However, with the coming of perestroika, he was able to make two further films before succumbing to cancer in 1990.

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors' is a 1965 film by Sergei Paradzhanov based on the classic book by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. The film was Paradzhanov's first major work and earned him international acclaim for its rich use of costume and colour. The film also features a detailed portrayal of Ukrainian Hutsul culture, showing not only the harsh Carpathian environment and brutal family rivalries, but also the various aspects of Hutsul traditions, music, costumes, and dialect.

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“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" is a film which came into the world’s top twenty films of all countries. Harvard University has recently included the aforementioned film to the list of mandatory film reviews for the students acquiring a higher degree in cinematography.