A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa (movie)
Молитва за гетьмана Мазепу- User score: 5.1
- Production country: Ukraine
- Producer: Yurii Illienko
- Production companies: Dovzhenko Film Studios
- Genre: History, Drama
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Release date: 2/14/2002
- Run time: 154 min.
Movie description
'A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa' unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle. In 1709, Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine, which was part of the Russian Empire, signed a pact with the Swedish king promising to support Sweden in its war against Russia provided that Ukraine was given its independence.
