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This Ukrainian fantasy reflects the careful retelling of a folk legend about a beautiful sorceress and her young apprentice. The older witch initiates the younger into a magical world while two winged men observe them. The film is done without sensation.
In a small Ukrainian village Rudivka, where a rumor begins to circulate that the Second Coming is nigh and that the Messiah is already somewhere in the region, lived the twins. Local people were considering them being one person. The people had got scared, when one of the brothers was killed. They thought that supernatural forces took the law into their own hands. The thought pushed people to committing the terrible deeds. The guesswork brings serious consequences. Based on the novel "Petro Uteklyi" by Valerii Shevchuk.
A music video featuring People's Artist of Ukraine Nina Matvienko. The film features a number of both well-known and little-known Ukrainian folk and original songs performed by a wonderful singer. The video sequence harmoniously complements the musical part of the film. Here are the vast Ukrainian steppes, clear blue stretches, flowering field grasses and the rustling of oak forests.
