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A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa (2002)
Directed by Yuri Ilyenko
Overview
‘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.
Length 154 minutes
Actors
Bogdan Stupka | Yefymenko Lyudmila | Nikita Dzhigurda | Viacheslav Dovzhenko | Victor Demertash | Serhiy Romaniuk | Philip Ilyenko | Les Serdyuk | Ostap Stupka | Mikhail Golubovich | Олег Драч | Raisa Nedashkovskaya | Konstantin Stepankov | Yurii Illienko | Yevhen Pidhornyi | Volodymyr Kolyada | Volodymyr Abazopulo | Victor Poltoratsky