The Black Council

Mar 1, 2001

2h 24m

★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

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Cast

Bogdan Khmelnitsky

Aleksey Petrenko

Briukhovetsky

Bohdan Stupka

Hetman Somko

Oleksandr Bondarenko

Shram

Serhii Romaniuk

Cherevan

Bohdan Beniuk

Cherevan's wife

Ruslana Pysanka

Lesya

Radmila Shegoleva

Polish princess

Ksenia Kovaliova

Gvintovka

Stepan Oleksenko

Kirilo Tur

Mykola Boklan

Nikolay Oleynik

Iryna Melnyk

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