The read
It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
A young man, Ivan, is forcefully mobilised and sent to fight in the Caucasian War as a soldier of the Russian Empire by his landlord, leaving his wife behind. In the Caucasus, Ivas experiences the fierce local resistance to the Russian military, and returns home to launch an uprising against the Russian government.
Ratings
IMDb5.6/10
7 audience votes
Key crew
- Ivan KavaleridzeDirector
- Ivan KavaleridzeWriter
Cast
- Ivan TverdokhlibIvan
- Polina NyatkoKateryna
- Danylo AntonovychHavrylov, the revolutionary
- Oleksandr SerdiukSvichka Pomishchyk, the colonel
- Ivan ShtraukhZhukov, the merchant
- Hnat YuraSydorenko, Svichka's manager
- Nataliia UzhviiNastasia Markivna
- Ivan MarianenkoGeneral Ladanskyi
- Vladimir YershovNicholas I of Russia
- Shota NozadzeGeorgian prisoner
- Mykola NademskyiTaras Shevchenko
- I. NekrutenkoRussian gendarmerie
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Themes
poetbiography