Bloody Dawn

Bloody Dawn (1957) is a Soviet Ukrainian historical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Oleksiy Shvachko and based on Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's Fata Morgana.

1905. Peasant Marko Hrusha returns to his village and begins organizing against the landlords. He's arrested. It doesn't take. After his release he fights harder. Maryan Krushelnitsky and a young Ada Rohovtseva — decades before she became one of Ukraine's most celebrated actresses — play people who have run out of reasons to stay quiet. The film is one of the early Ukrainian screen adaptations of Kotsiubynsky, grounding the first Russian revolution in specific lives rather than historical abstraction. Watch Bloody Dawn online on iFILM.