- HD 1080
- Runtime: 96m.
- Status: Released
1
- Languages: uk
- Country: Soviet Union
- Director: Sergei Parajanov
- Stars: Ivan Mykolaichuk, Larysa Kadochnykova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Nikolay Grinko, Spartak Bagashvili
- keywords: based on novel or book, sorcery, forbidden love, rivalry, sorcerer, star crossed lovers, carpathians, rusyn
- Production_studio: Dovzhenko Film Studios
- Slogan: A New Kind of Ukrainian Film...acclaimed around the world at all film festivals
- providers: Klassiki
- The Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is featured in the top rankings of 1965
- #3 in Top Romance Movies of 1965
- #11 in Top Drama Movies of 1965
In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart.