A peasant and father of Vasyl who is initially skeptical of collectivization. After Vasyl's murder, he searches for the killer, confronts Khoma, and rejects a religious funeral, declaring his atheism and requesting a secular ceremony with new songs.
Their conflict opposes secular revolutionary identity to religious authority.
The priest expects to lead Vasyl's funeral, but Opanas turns him away and declares his atheism.
Both occupy the anti-collectivization side of the village's ideological tension, although the plot does not show a direct confrontation between them.
Opanas is initially skeptical about collectivization, while Arkhyp Bilokin openly denounces collectivization and declares resistance to it.
A central father-son relationship shaped by generational and ideological tension.
The plot identifies Opanas as Vasyl's father. Opanas attends the death of Vasyl's grandfather with Vasyl and later searches for Vasyl's killer.
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