The film is a poetic adaptation of a series of stories (oral and written) about Princess Olha of Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rusʹ) at the start of the 11th century. Inspired by chronicles and folk legends this is a story of a common girl Olha who married Prince Ihor and became his successor on the throne after his murder and one of the most remarkable political leaders in early medieval European history. She converted to Christianity and brought her realm into Europe.
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Liudmyla Yefymenko as Princess Olha
Les Serdyuk as Prince Svyatoslav
Ivan Mykolaichuk as Volodymyr I Svyatoslavych
Ivan Ivanov as Volodymyr young
Kostiantyn Stepankov as Voivode Sveneld
Ivan Havryliuk as Rus
Dmitriy Mirgorodskiy as Greek Arefa, a monk
Nikolay Olyalin as Oleh the Wise, Prince of Kyiv
Oleksandr Denysenko as Prince Ihor, Olha's husband, Svyatoslav's father
Viktor Demertash as Prince Mal of the Drevlians
Pylyp Illienko as Prince Svyatoslav young
Yuriy Dubrovin as man "Tree-cloud"
Mikhail Golubovich as mute stable boy
Leonid Obolensky as volkhv Ilm
Ivan Savkin as Governor of Novhorod
Svetlana Romashko as housekeeper Malusha
Heorhiy Morozyuk as messenger Vivera
Viktor Panchenko as the envoy of the Drevlians
Viktor Malyarevych as Prince's man-at-arms
Kostiantyn Stepankov Jr. as Prince's man-at-arms
Aleksei Kolesnik as episode
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