A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

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.

• Yurii IllienkoDirector
• Yurii IllienkoScreenplay

• Bohdan StupkaHetman Mazepa
• Lyudmila EfimenkoLiubov Kochubei
• Nikita DzhigurdaKing Charles XII
• Viacheslav DovzhenkoTsar Peter I
• Viktor DemertashJudge General Kochubei
• Serhii RomaniukCossack Leleka
• Pylyp IllienkoYoung Mazepa
• Les SerdyukHetman Samoilovych
• Ostap StupkaChancellor Orlyk
• Mikhail GolubovichZaporozhian Leader Sirko
• Oleh DrachPrince Vasili Golitsyn
• Rayisa NedashkivskaGypsy Sorceress