A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

I, Hetman Ivan Mazepa have declared this beautiful country an independent state... and for this I've received an eternal curse, an anathema, from the one who raped my land the worst of all — from Moscow Tsar Peter I.

A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa — Plot

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.

• Release date
• November 14, 2003
• Runtime
• 154 min
• Genres
• History, Drama
• Director
• Yurii Illienko

A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa — Cast

Bohdan Stupka Hetman Mazepa Lyudmila Efimenko Liubov Kochubei Nikita Dzhigurda King Charles XII Viacheslav Dovzhenko Tsar Peter I Viktor Demertash Judge General Kochubei Serhii Romaniuk Cossack Leleka Pylyp Illienko Young Mazepa Les Serdyuk Hetman Samoilovych