American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s Soviet Ukraine.
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Anton Sviatoslav Greene
Peter Shamrock
Stanislav Boklan
Ivan Kocherga
Jamala
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Jeff Burrell
Michael Shamrock
Oleksandr Kobzar
Comrade Vladimir
Oleh Prymohenov
Mykola Sytnyk
Іryna Sanіna
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