STORY
'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.
CAST & CREW
- Bohdan Stupka
- Liudmyla Yefymenko
- Nikita Dzhigurda
- Viacheslav Dovzhenko
- Viktor Demertash
Cast
- Yurii Illienko
Director
INFORMATION
- Dovzhenko Film Studios
Production Companies
- Ukraine
Production Countries
LANGUAGES
- Russian
- Ukrainian
