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A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

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.

Genres

HistoryDrama

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'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.

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Budget

$2000000

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Ukrainian

Runtime

154 mins

Rating

5/10

Release Date

14 February 2002

Country

Ukraine

Cast

Bohdan Stupka

Bohdan Stupka

Hetman Mazepa

Liudmyla Yefymenko

Liudmyla Yefymenko

Liubov Kochubei

Nikita Dzhigurda

Nikita Dzhigurda

King Charles XII

Viacheslav Dovzhenko

Viacheslav Dovzhenko

Tsar Peter I

Viktor Demertash

Viktor Demertash

Judge General Kochubei

Serhii Romaniuk

Serhii Romaniuk

Cossack Leleka

Pylyp Illienko

Pylyp Illienko

Young Mazepa

Les Serdyuk

Les Serdyuk

Hetman Samoilovych

Ostap Stupka

Ostap Stupka

Chancellor Orlyk

Mikhail Golubovich

Mikhail Golubovich

Zaporozhian Leader Sirko

Oleh Drach

Oleh Drach

Prince Vasili Golitsyn

Rayisa Nedashkivska

Rayisa Nedashkivska

Gypsy Sorceress

Kostiantyn Stepankov

Kostiantyn Stepankov

Leader of Free Will

Yurii Illienko

Yurii Illienko

Marshall Zhukov

Yevhen Pidhornyi

Yevhen Pidhornyi

guest at the wedding

Volodymyr Koliada

Volodymyr Koliada

Iskra

Volodymyr Abazopulo

Volodymyr Abazopulo

Viktor Poltoratskyi

Viktor Poltoratskyi

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