A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

I, Hetman Ivan Mazepa have declared this beautiful country an independent state... and for this I've received an eternal curse, an anathema, from the one who raped my land the worst of all — from Moscow Tsar Peter I.

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2003 / 154min.

Rating5

Genres

History

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Yurii Illienko

Actors

Les Serdyuk

Nikita Dzhigurda

Yurii Illienko

Rayisa Nedashkivska

Serhii Romaniuk

Viktor Demertash

Volodymyr Abazopulo

Oleh Drach

Ostap Stupka

Mikhail Golubovich

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