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 β from Moscow Tsar Peter I.
π Overview:
'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.
π΅ Budget: USD
2,000,000
π Languages Available:
Russian
,
Ukrainian
π Date Released:
2002-02-14
β Running Time:
154 mins
β Vote Average:
5.1
Beloved Cast
Hetman Mazepa
Bohdan Stupka
Liubov Kochubei
Liudmyla Yefymenko
King Charles XII
Nikita Dzhigurda
Tsar Peter I
Viacheslav Dovzhenko
Judge General Kochubei
Viktor Demertash
Cossack Leleka
Serhii Romaniuk
Young Mazepa
Pylyp Illienko
Hetman Samoilovych
Les Serdyuk
Chancellor Orlyk
Ostap Stupka
Zaporozhian Leader Sirko
Mikhail Golubovich
Prince Vasili Golitsyn
Oleh Drach
Gypsy Sorceress
Rayisa Nedashkivska
Leader of Free Will
Kostiantyn Stepankov
Marshall Zhukov
Yurii Illienko
guest at the wedding
Yevhen Pidhornyi
Iskra
Volodymyr Koliada
Volodymyr Abazopulo
Viktor Poltoratskyi