A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa

Name: A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
Director: Yurii Illienko
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2002-02-14
Rating: 5
Cast: Bohdan Stupka, Liudmyla Yefymenko, Nikita Dzhigurda, Viacheslav Dovzhenko, Viktor Demertash

Original title: Молитва за гетьмана Мазепу

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Synopsis

'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds 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.