This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.
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> Leonid Osyka (Director)
> Valeriy Kvas (Director of Photography)
> Anatoli Chernoochenko (Sound Director)
> Yaroslav Lupiy (First Assistant Director)
> Borys Savchenko (First Assistant Director)
> M. Lyakhovetskiy (Second Assistant Director)
> Lev Kolesnik (Assistant Director)
> Dmytro Pavlychko (Screenplay)
> Ivan Franko (Novel)
> Dmytro Pavlychko (Lyricist)
> L. Chumakova (Script Editor)
> G. Khalimonenko (Script Consultant)
> Yu. Natsvaladze (Script Consultant)
> M. Braychevskiy (Script Consultant)
