Caprice of Catherine ІІ

Caprice of Catherine ІІ (1928)

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The film is based on V. Yurezanskyi’s novel The Missing Village about the struggle of Ukrainian Cossacks for their freedom during the reign of Catherine II. Free Cossacks from the village of Turbai in Poltava region, who were included in registers of Myrhorod Pact, suddenly find out that at the order of Catherine II they become the property of the Ukrainian landlord, pan Bazylevskyi. He treats Cossacks like his usual serfs. Cossacks ask the empress for help, but receive no reply. Then, they rebel and set Bazylevskyi’s estate on fire. The owner and his family die during the fire. The vengeance of the Russian empress is terrible, as dozens of Cossacks are beaten to death, and the village of Turbai is doomed to destruction. The film is lost.

Director: Pyotr Chardynin

Casts

	Mykola Nademskyi as Korbe’s script
	Vasyl Krasenko as one of rebels
	Borys Kallash-Verbytskyi as a drummer
	Heorhiy Astafyev as executioners
	P. Kostenko as
	Oleksii Kharlamov as Proshka
	Mykola Kuchynskyi as Papko, an otaman
	Leonid Barbe as Korbe, an advisor
	V. Arhutynska as empress Catherine II
	Yuri Chernyshov as Ivan Bazylevskyi
	P. Osadchiy as
	Maria Parshina as Ustia, Marianna's house serf
	Boris Tamarin as
	Vladimir Uralskiy as Turbay walker

Crew