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With Fire and Sword
Ogniem i mieczem
drama, melodrama, adventure
1999
Poland
Yezhi Hoffman
204 min.
Mikhal Zhebrovsky, Alexander Domogarov, Isabella Skoropko, Anna Teresa Novak, Krzyshtof Kovalevsky, Bogdan Stupka, Andrzej Severin, Zbignnev Zamakhovsky, Victor Zborovsky, Voicich Malaikat
XVII century. The Commonwealth is declared by fire provoked by the quarrel of the Orthodox Colonel Bogdan Khmelnitsky with Pan Chaplinsky, who threw the colonel`s son to death. The insulted Khmelnitsky raised the Zaporizhzhya Sich, called on the Crimean Tatars led by Tugan Bey, and defeated the troops of King Vladislav. Against the backdrop of wild robberies, pogroms, grandiose battal scenes, the noble gentry Skhetic and cruel Cossack chieftain Bogun achieve the love of a beautiful woman ...