A Story of the Forest: Mavka
Лісова пісня. Мавка
A Story of the Forest: Mavka 123Movies. Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses the nymph, transforming her into a weeping willow. This beautiful and tragic story is based on a play written in 1912 by Lesya Ukrainka, a Ukrainian poet, writer and political, civil and female activist, and includes mythological characters taken from Ukrainian folklore.
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Country: Soviet Union
- Director: Yurii Illienko
- Cast: Liudmyla Yefymenko, Viktor Kremlev, Maya Bulgakova, Ivan Mykolaichuk, Boris Khmelnitsky, Viktor Demertash, Lyudmyla Lobza, Nina Shatskaya, Svetlana Sergeyeva, Ivan Khodulin, Pylyp Illienko, Vladimir Fyodorov,