A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

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.

5

154 min

Cast

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

Director

Yurii Illienko