The Horse That Cried

An adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955 that anticipates the Ukrainian poetic cinema of the 60s in its focus on starcrossed lovers and its celebration of nature Set in the 1830s the film follows two lovers on the run a girl forced into marriage and her boyfriend a serf whos being sought by the authorities as they try to make their way to freedom