A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa 2002

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.

A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

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History Drama

'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; the 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 the Ukraine was given its independence.

Top Billed Cast

Bohdan Stupka

Hetman Mazepa

Liudmyla Yefymenko

Liubov Kochubei

Nikita Dzhigurda

King Charles XII

Viacheslav Dovzhenko

Tsar Peter I

Viktor Demertash

Judge General Kochubei

Serhiy Romanyuk

Cossack Leleka

Release Date 2002-02-14
Runtime 2h 34m
Directors Yurii Illienko, Yurii Illienko
Producers Igor Didkovsky, Volodymyr Kniazev
Writer Yurii Illienko