The Enchanted Desna by Oleksander Dovzhenko translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella Read an excerpt Purchase A story told beautifully and movingly between the paintings ofChagall and a movie by Béla Tarr, The Enchanted Desna is a rarething: a novelization-before-the-fact of a movie made after theauthor’s death. The Ukrainian Oleksander Dovzhenko was per-haps the…