The rich peasant Solopii Cherevyk goes to the Sorochyntsi fair to sell wheat. His quarrelsome wife Khivria and daughters Paraska, Horpyna and Motria go with him. At the fair, Paraska meets a guy named Hrytsko and falls in love with him. But her stepmother Khivria is against their wedding. In parallel, the events related to the mysterious story about the "red scroll" develop.
Heorhii Khostikoiev
Hrytsko
Nadiia Meikher
Paraska
Sofiya Rotaru
gypsy
Anatoliy Dyachenko
Solopii Cherevyk
Yuriy Galtsev
priest
Valeriy Meladze
devil
Andrii Danylko
Khivria
Andrey Fedortsov
moskal
Viktor Tsekalo
jewish tavern-keeper
Vasyl Basha
cossack
Volodymyr Zadniprovskyi
moscow merchant
Vera Brezhneva
Motria
Svetlana Loboda
Horpyna
Georgiy Drozd
tailor
Yosyp Naiduk
lord
Inna Bilokon
godmother Tsybulykha
Ruslana Pysanka
actress at the fair
Liudmyla Ihnatenko
Innkeeper's mother