648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytskyi gathers the army of defenders of the motherland.
Cast:
Nikolai Mordvinov, Borys Bezhin, Mykyta Ilchenko, Mikhail Zharov, Garen Zhukovskaya
Production:
Kyiv Film Studio
Hetman Zynovii-Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
Colonel Ivan Bohun
Colonel Maksym Kryvonis
cantor Havrylo
Helena Chaplynska, the Hetman's wife
Tuvka, Lizogub henchman
Colonel Afanas
Tugai-Bei, murza of Perekop
Cossack Dovbnia, Shaitan's son / boyar Pushkin, Moscow ambassador
Clerk Lyzohub
Cossack Shaitan
old Cossack Tur
cossack Kozhukh
guard
kobzar
centurion Harbuz