Ogniem i mieczem, 1999, 183 min.
Director | Jerzy Hoffman | |
Screenplay | Jerzy Hoffman, based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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Cinematography | Grzegorz Kedzierski | |
Music | Krzesimir Debski | |
Art Direction | Andrzej Helinski |
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 |
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.