With Fire and Sword

Ogniem i mieczem, 1999, 183 min.

With Fire and Sword (1999)

Production

Director Jerzy Hoffman
Screenplay Jerzy Hoffman,
based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Cinematography Grzegorz Kedzierski
Music Krzesimir Debski
Art Direction Andrzej Helinski
Cast
Helena Kurcewiczowna Izabela Scorupco
Jan Skrzetuski Michal Zebrowski
Bohun Aleksander Domgorow
Prince Jeremi Wisniowiecki Andrzej Seweryn
Bohdan Chmielnicki Bohdan Stupka
Jan Onufry Zagloba Krzysztof Kowalewski
Longinus Podbipieta Wiktor Zborowski
Michal Wolodyjowski Zbigniew Zamachowski
Rzedzian Wojciech Malajkat
Kniahini Kurcewiczowa Ewa Wisniewska
Horpyna Ruslana Pysanka
Tuhaj-bej Daniel Olbrychski
Story
The seventeenth century Polish-Ukrainian borderland is torn by a Cossack uprising. Two men court Miss Helena Kurcewiczowna – Jan Skrzetuski, a Polish nobleman, and Jurko Bohun, a Cossack colonel. The outbreak of a Cossack’s Rebellion led by Bohdan Chmielnicki against Poles led by Prince Jeremi Wisniowiecki brings dramatic consequences.