A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

Name: A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
Director: Yurii Illienko
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2003-11-14
Duration: 2 h 34 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Bohdan Stupka, Lyudmila Efimenko, Nikita Dzhigurda, Viacheslav Dovzhenko, Viktor Demertash

Directed by Yurii Illienko

History

Drama

20032h 34m5.0

Overview

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.