With Fire and Sword
(1999)
★ 6.9 IMDb · 111 votes
Year: 1999
Runtime: 204 мин
Country: Poland
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Александр Домогаров, Michał Żebrowski, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Богдан Ступка, Andrzej Seweryn, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Wiktor Zborowski, Войцех Малайкат, Ewa Wiśniewska
Plot
In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic... An epic story about the Cossack rebellion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
In 1648 a Cossack rebellion in the Ukraine threatens the sovereignty of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over the Cossack nation. The Cossack rebellion also known as the Khmelnytsky Uprising is pitting the Cossack nation and its Crimean Tatar allies against the forces sent by the Polish king John II Casimir. Polish Colonel Michal Wolodyjowski is leading a squadron of Polish cavalry.Traitors,assassins and spies are everywhere. Against the backdrop of the uprising, a Polish knight Skrzetuski and a Cossack leader Bohun fall in love with the same young beautiful woman, Helena. Their rivalry becomes the symbol of Polish-Ukrainian struggle.