Cossacks in Exile

Zaporozhets za Dunayem

In Ukraine, in 1775, the Zaporogian Cossacks learn that Moscow is sending soldiers to destroy their fort. The Ukrainian villagers appeal to Czarina Catherine, but she insists that they join the Russian army or risk annihilation. Instead, the Cossacks burn their fort and flee on the Danube River to Turkey, where they live in peace, but still yearn for their homeland.

Screenplay

Vasile Avramenko

Novela

Semen Hulak-Artemovsky

Director

Edgar G. Ulmer

Status

Released

Release date

27/01/1939

Original language

Ukrainian