Caprice of Catherine ІІ
1928
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Overview
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.
Top Cast
Mykola Nademskyi
Korbe’s script
Vasyl Krasenko
one of rebels
Borys Kallash-Verbytskyi
a drummer
Heorhiy Astafyev
executioners
P. Kostenko
Oleksii Kharlamov
Proshka
Mykola Kuchynskyi
Papko, an otaman
Leonid Barbe
Korbe, an advisor
V. Arhutynska
empress Catherine II
Yuri Chernyshov
Ivan Bazylevskyi
P. Osadchiy
Maria Parshina
Ustia, Marianna's house serf
Boris Tamarin
Vladimir Uralskiy
Turbay walker