The lost film about the peasant rebellion of the 18th century in Ukraine, led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta. The history of the haydamak movement became a trigger for authors to have experiments in the field of film language: shooting against the background of black velvet, focus on the static character of the picture, the sculptural nature of composition mise-en-scène solutions, replacement of dramatic collisions with cinema engravings depicting the historical past.

Cast

Ivan Maryanenko

Honta

Stepan Shkurat

peasant Ivan

V. Piddubnyi

prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki

M. Petlyashenko

Zalizniak

L. Sharov

Ivan's son

Severyn Pankivskyi

Jesuit Bishop