Overview
The lost film about the peasant rebellion of the 18th century in Ukraine, led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta. The history of the haydamak movement became a trigger for authors to have experiments in the field of film language: shooting against the background of black velvet, focus on the static character of the picture, the sculptural nature of composition mise-en-scène solutions, replacement of dramatic collisions with cinema engravings depicting the historical past.
Cast
- Ivan Marianenko as Honta
- M. Petlyashenko as Zalizniak
- Stepan Shkurat as peasant Ivan
- L. Sharov as Ivan's son
- Severyn Pankivskyi as Jesuit Bishop
- V. Piddubnyi as prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki
- Viktor Komar as Stanislav-Avgust