Storyline
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.
Released
October 1956
Runtime
1h 41min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
Russian
Production
Dovzhenko Film Studios
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
Sergey Dvoretskiy
Andrei Zhurba
Vladimir Yemelyanov
Muzhilovskiy, hetman's ambassador
Vladimir Belokurov
Lizogub, military clerk
Alfred Rebane
hetman Pototsky
Vasili Lanovoy
lieutenant Orzhelskiy
Anton Dunaisky
cossack
Fyodor Ishchenko
military sergeant major
Vladimir Ivanov
Aleksei Mikhailovich
Dmitriy Kapka
Yan
Yuri Lavrov
polish nobleman
Valentins 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