Caprice of Catherine ІІ (1928)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1928-01-01
Director: Pyotr Chardynin
Top Cast
- 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
Soundtrack
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