The new reality changes the usual life in the village of Babylon. Attempts to communize the small town are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance. Amidst the resistance philosopher Fabian returns to Babylon and tries to prevent bloodshed, but he meets a tragic fate.
Acting
Mykolaichuk's Fabian: thinker crushed by history he cannot stop.
Cinematography
Carpathian landscapes that mock human suffering.
Direction
Mykolaichuk directs himself toward inevitable doom.
Director
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Fabian
Lyubov Polishchuk
Malva
Les Serdyuk
Danko
Yaroslav Havryliuk
Lukian
Taisiya Lytvynenko
Prisia
Boryslav Brondukov
Yavtushok
Lyudmila Chinshevaya
Darynka
Anatoli Khostikoyev
poet Volodya Yavorskyi
Ivan Havryliuk
Klym Synytsia
Kostiantyn Stepankov
Bubela
Olga Mateshko
Parfena
Rayisa Nedashkivska
Ruzia
Mykola Shutko
Panko
Dmytro Myrhorodskyi
Malva's husband
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in USSR until 1987; Mykolaichuk died before seeing its release. The film's suppression mirrored its subject.
Based on Vasyl Stefanyk's 1899 novellas—written before the revolution it depicts, making it eerily prophetic.
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