Galina Slipenko

A TV version of a performance by the Ivan Franko Ukrainian Drama Theatre in Kiev, directed by A. Skibenko, based on a play by Mark Kropivnitsky.

Based on the play The Gypsy Azza by Mykhailo Starytsky. The gypsy Vasyl falls in love with the Ukrainian beauty Halia. He forgets his nomadic life, his mother, and the gypsy Azza, and decides to stay in the village for Halia’s sake. Halia, against her father’s wishes, marries Vasyl. But time will pass, and Vasyl will begin to long for the camp.

Based on the novel by Olha Kobylyanska.