Zakhar Berkut

Zakhar Berkut

93 mins | Drama, History | April 3, 1972

This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.

Zakhar Berkut

93 mins | Drama, History | April 3, 1972

Zakhar Berkut
This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Dovzhenko Film Studios
Original title Захар Беркут
Directors Leonid Osyka
Writers Ivan Franko, Dmytro Pavlychko

Cast

Vasyl Symchych

as Zakhar Berkut

Ivan Havrilyuk

as Maxim

Kostiantyn Stepankov

as Tugar Vovk

Boryslav Brondukov

as Burunda

Ivan Mykolaichuk

as Lyubomir

Fedir Panasenko

as Dmytro Voyak

Naidan Gendunova

as Tatar woman

Antonina Leftiy

as Miroslava