Lead by Bohdan Hmelnytskyi kozaks laid siege to a small town Zbarazh, Polish shlyahta (gentry) lead by Ukraine’s worst enemy Yarema Vyshnevetskyi got trapped. Having run out of food, suffering from plague and other sicknesses Yarema sent dozens of messengers to the King of Poland to beg him provide them with military assistance, but none of the messengers could get through kozaks’ siege.
It seemed that kozaks will soon celebrate their victory, but something unpredictable happened – an alliance with the Crimean Khan Islam – Hirei broke up because of Khan’s treason: in the middle of the fierce fighting the Horde left the battle field…
Immense military losses, the perfidy of the closest allies, personal family tragedy – these are only some of those tortures that tormented the great Hetman of Ukraine at that time.
Production: National Dovzhenko film studio
Director and scriptwriter: Mykola Mashchenko
Director of Photography: Serhii Bordenyuk
Music by: Mykhailo Chemberdzhi
Production designer: Vitalii Yasko
Cast: Volodymyr Abazopulo, Ostap Stupka, Denys Kokariov, Serhii Dzhygurda, Maryna Yahodkina, Viktor Kruchyna, Mykolan Boklan, Liliya Kuznetsova, Olena Stohnii, Oleksii Vertynskyi, Georgii Hostikoev, Georgii Moroziuk, Sergiin Romaniuk.
The movie is in Ukrainian, Russian. Subtitles: english.
Video format - PAL.
DVD Region: ALL.
, Івано-Франківськ, Україна
, Москва, Россия