
154 minutes
11/14/2003
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.

Bohdan Stupka
as Hetman Mazepa

Liudmyla Yefymenko
as Liubov Kochubei

Nikita Dzhigurda
as King Charles XII

Viacheslav Dovzhenko
as Tsar Peter I

Viktor Demertash
as Judge General Kochubei

Serhii Romaniuk
as Cossack Leleka

Pylyp Illienko
as Young Mazepa

Les Serdyuk
as Hetman Samoilovych

Ostap Stupka
as Chancellor Orlyk

Mikhail Golubovich
as Zaporozhian Leader Sirko

Oleh Drach
as Prince Vasili Golitsyn

Rayisa Nedashkivska
as Gypsy Sorceress

Kostiantyn Stepankov
as Leader of Free Will

Yurii Illienko
as Marshall Zhukov
Yevhen Pidhornyi
as guest at the wedding
Volodymyr Koliada
as Iskra

Heorhii Fomin

Volodymyr Abazopulo

Viktor Poltoratskyi

Serhiy Marchenko

Serhiy Dzhigurda