A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
'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.
Cast: Bohdan Stupka, Liudmyla Yefymenko, Nikita Dzhigurda, Viacheslav Dovzhenko, Viktor Demertash, Serhiy Romanyuk, Pylyp Illienko, Les Serdyuk, Ostap Stupka, Mykhaylo Holubovych, Oleg Drach, Rayisa Nedashkivska, Kostiantyn Stepankov
Crew: Igor Didkovsky (Producer), Serhii Yakutovych (Production Design), Yurii Illienko (Director of Photography), Yurii Illienko (Screenplay), Volodymyr Kniazev (Executive Producer)