The Black Council (2001)
The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.
Director:
Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko
Writer:
Grigori Shton
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Aleksey Petrenko as Bogdan Khmelnitsky |
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Bohdan Stupka as Briukhovetsky |
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Oleksandr Bondarenko as Hetman Somko |
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Serhii Romaniuk as Shram |
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Bohdan Beniuk as Cherevan |
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Ruslana Pysanka as Cherevan's wife |
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Radmila Shegoleva as Lesya |
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Ksenia Kovaliova as Polish princess |
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Stepan Oleksenko as Gvintovka |
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Mykola Boklan as Kirilo Tur |
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Mykola Oliinyk as |
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Iryna Melnyk as |
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Anatoli Mokrenko as |
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Kostiantyn Shaforenko as Shramenko |
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Vladimir Volkov as boyar |
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Viktor Polishchuk as |
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Vitali Rosstalnoy as Pugach |
| Writing | Grigori Shton | Screenplay |
| Camera | Oleksandr Chorny | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Ihor Poklad | Music |
| Writing | Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko | Writer |
| Directing | Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko | Director |
| Writing | Panteleimon Kulish | Novel |
| Art | Inna Bychenkova | Production Design |