The Czarina Commands

The Czarina Commands

66 mins | Drama, History | Jan. 1, 1931

The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.

The Czarina Commands

66 mins | Drama, History | Jan. 1, 1931

The Czarina Commands
The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.
Producers Ukrainfilm
Original title Коліївщина
Directors Ivan Kavaleridze
Writers Ivan Kavaleridze

Cast

Ivan Maryanenko

as Ivan Gonta

Jakub Libert

as The Rent Collector

Naum Sheinberg

as The Innkeeper

Yu. Gurevich

as Moshko

Danylo Antonovych

as Maksym Zalizniak

Polina Natko

as Oksana

Fedir Radchuk

as Pan Chiczewski

Yevdokiya Dolya

as Oksana's mother

Hanna Borysohlibska

as Ulyana, Semen's mother

Mykola Nademskyi

as Dionysiy

Severyn Pankivskyi

as Knyaz Mladynovych

Ivan Tverdokhlib

as Pavlo

Maryan Krushelnytskyi

as Cossack colonel