Based on the story of the same name by Mykola Gogol.

Three students of the Kiev Bursa went on vacation. On the way, they got lost in the dark and asked to spend the night in a remote farm. On a deep night, one of the students, Homa Brutus, came an old mistress, jumped on top of him and raced over fields, forests, lakes ... An exhausted Homa read a prayer that helped him to free himself from the spell of the witch and escape.

A few days later, the rich lord centurion, following the last will of his deceased beauties daughter, ordered him to bring home to Homo Brutus that he would read over the young lady of prayer for three nights, and promised Homii after the rite of singing had been given a generous reward. If Thomas tries to evade singing, he will be severely punished by the will of the centurion.

Movie 24 from the movie Unknown Ukraine. Essays on our history.

At the heart of the film is the legend of the visit to the Kiev mountains by the apostle Andrew the First-Called, the establishment of the Cross, symbolizing the coming triumph of a new era, and the prophecy of the glittering heyday of Kiev in the future.

Movies 94, 95 from the movie cycle Unknown Ukraine. Essays on our history.

Events in Ukraine 1918-21. Formation of state farms and communes. Introductions. Crisis and hunger. Peasant armed uprisings under the orders of Antonov, Grigoryev, Zeleny, Nestor Makhno.