'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds 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.
Genres:
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
Volodymyr Abazopulo as
Viktor Poltoratskyi as
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