Overview
648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytskyi gathers the army of defenders of the motherland.
Cast
- Nikolai Mordvinov as Hetman Zynovii-Bohdan Khmelnytskyi
- Borys Bezhin as Colonel Ivan Bohun
- Mykyta Ilchenko as Colonel Maksym Kryvonis
- Mikhail Zharov as cantor Havrylo
- Garen Zhukovskaya as Helena Chaplynska, the Hetman's wife
- Mykhailo Vysotskyi as Tuvka, Lizogub henchman
- Andrii Ivanchenko as Colonel Afanas
- Kostiantyn Mukhutdinov as Tugai-Bei, murza of Perekop
- Boris Andreyev as Cossack Dovbnia, Shaitan's son / boyar Pushkin, Moscow ambassador
- Vitali Politseymako as Clerk Lyzohub