In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Polish gentry rule. About the events of the National Liberation War in Ukraine under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who with a firm hand led the insurgent masses to an alliance with Russia.
Cast
Viktor Dobrovolsky
hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Yulian Panich
Timofei, hetman's son
Evgeniy Samoylov
Bohun, colonel
Artyom Tarskiy
Kryvonos, colonel
Arkadii Hashynskyi
Ganzha, colonel
Natalya Uzhviy
Varvara
Yelena Dobronravova
Solomiya
Serhii Dvoretskyi
Andrei Zhurba
Vladimir Yemelyanov
Muzhilovskiy, hetman's ambassador
Vladimir Belokurov
Lizogub, military clerk
Alfred Rebane
hetman Pototsky
Vasili Lanovoy
lieutenant Orzhelskiy
Anton Dunaisky
cossack
Fedir Ishchenko
military sergeant major
Vladimir Ivanov
Aleksei Mikhailovich
Dmytro Karpa
Yan
Yuri Lavrov
polish nobleman
Valentīns Skulme
Pototsky's associate
Sergei Filippov
florentine monk
Georgi Chernovolenko
doctor
Galina Kravchenko
Gelena (as G. Kravchenko)
Nikolay Pishvanov
ataman Sokolov
Robert Klyavin
catholic bishop Lentovskiy
Pyotr Mikhnevich
bishop
Crew
Vladimir Petrov
Director
Aleksandr Korneychuk
Writer
Varvara Bondina
Editor
Arkadi Koltsaty
Director of Photography
Mykhailo Yuferov
Production Design
Lidiya Baikova
Costume Design
Mikhail Losev
Makeup Artist
Rostislav Maksimtsov
Sound
Tatyana Chernyshyova
Special Effects
Valentin Korolev
Special Effects
Konstantin Dankevich
Music
Aleksandr Kudrya
Set Decoration
Natan Rakhlin
Conductor