"National Film Studio named after O. Dovzhenko" "Commissioned by" "Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine" "Vladimir ABAZOPULO as Bohdan-Zinovy Khmelnytsky, Hetman of Ukraine" "Denis KOKAREV as Alexei Romanov, Tsar of Moscow" "Sergei DZHIGURDA as Jan Casimierzh, King of Poland" "Bilyal BILYALOV as Islam-Giray, Khan of Crimea" "Viktor KRUCHINA Nikolai BOKLAN" "Valery ROSSTALNOY Lilia KUZNETSOVA" "Anatoly CHUMACHENKO Irma VITOVSKAYA" "Taras DENISENKO Mikhail KONECHNY" "Ostap STUPKA Yelena STOGNIY" "Marina YAGODKINA Valery SHEPTEKITA" "Alexei VERTINSKY Georgy KHOSTIKOYEV" "Georgy MOROZYUK Sergei ROMANYUK" "in a film" "BOHDAN-ZYNOVY KHMELNYTSKY" "Screenplay by Andrei YAREMCHUK Nikolai MASHCHENKO" "Director of Photography Sergei BORDENYUK" "Production Designer Vitaly YASKO" "Music by Mikhail CHEMBERZHI" "Editing Director Yevgeniya RUSETSKAYA" "Sound Director Anatoly IVANYUK" "Sound Operator Lyubov TSELMER" "Directed by Nikolai MASHCHENKO 1648" "The Hetman * of Ukraine Bohdan Khmelnytsky [* – Leader of Army, like King] started a national-liberation war against the Polish oppression." "Khmelnytsky's victories in the battles at Zhovti Vody," "Korsun and Pylyavtsi over a most powerful country of that time had stunned Europe." "To save his state from the Cossack advance, the king declared a total mobilization." "The two armies - Polish and Ukrainian - crossed swords in the battles at Zbarazh and Berestechko." "O Lord!" "If You have put a sword in my hand, if You have chosen me to do Your will," "strengthen my soul, give me understanding, show me, Your servant, the right way." "The Lord God, merciful and gracious, I'm asking You," "I'm begging You, do not leave me alone" "at this frightful moment." "July 7, 1649" "Noble Prince!" "The glorious Hetman of Zaporozhian * Army Bohdan Khmelnytsky's ready to storm." "[* Zaporozhian Sich - ukrainian military state]" "But he offers you, as the commander of Zbarazh defense, to stop resistance and lay down arms, in order not to spill the blood of your and our fine warriors in vain." "Tell your serf hetman that my szlachta * knights, together with me, [* - polish gentlefolks] would rather die by hundreds in battle than surrender to his mercy." "Fire!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "Follow me!" "Charge!" "I didn't expect any other response from Prince Vyshnevet'sky." "My orders are to stop the storming." "We'll take the fortress in a deadly siege." "And one more thing." "Inform Vygovs'ky of my order to disband 18 hundreds of the Bilotserkivs'ky regiment for pro-Polish feelings." "Don't fire!" "Come to your senses!" "It's a church!" "You're Christians, just like my congregation." "They're seeking shelter in the God's temple." "O Lord, save us!" "They are Your children!" "Answer me!" "Where's the money and jewels?" " Where's the gold?" " Answer me or I'll shoot you!" "Speak up!" "Where's the gold?" "I won't tell." "Don't shoot!" "What are you doing?" "!" "Stop this robbery!" "You godless men!" "We took up swords for our faith, and not against Catholic priests and their flock!" "The Lord helps us because we are right when we protect our churches." "But He will turn away from us if we begin to destroy someone else's churches and turn into insatiable robbers." "He who doesn't respect another's faith, doesn't honor his own, either." "Father!" "Forgive us." "The great warrior is crying." "The defeat is larger than the warrior." "It's the second month now that Zbarazh has been besieged." "We are in a deadly siege." "A brother doesn't dare help his brother." "Priests don't have enough time to bury all the dead." "Corpses are rotting in summer heat." "Moreover, the worst of monsters is approaching - hunger, and that means the end." "You sent your envoys to the khan, to Khmelnytsky." "We held secret negotiations with the khan, aiming at causing a rift between him and Khmelnytsky." "But, given our desperate situation, he did not agree to any of our conditions." "We're not going to storm Zbarazh." "What do you mean, we won't storm?" "Why?" "I don't want to spill your blood." "You want to spare our blood?" "Don't." "We don't spare it ourselves, we just want to finish this business." "Bohdan!" "We've covered our land with bones." "And now that the enemy is begging to grab it, we won't take them alive?" "I'm against it!" "Me, too." "Did you forget, gentlemen, that you're speaking to the hetman?" "In war, his word is law." "And as long as" "I have the mace in my hands," "I won't waive either my word or my power!" "Forgive us, Bohdan." "God will forgive you." "We're praying to you, and you..." "I'm not an icon to pray to me." "But we do, so lead us to Zbarazh, or the army will go without us!" "An arrow with this message has reached us." "I'm a Pole." "I was forced to serve Bohdan Khmelnytsky, but I wish my compatriots well." "That's why, my Polish brothers, I'm informing you that the king with a big army is already 5 miles away from us." "We hope, and we will endure the siege!" "We have faith!" "The Lord and the king will rescue us!" "Long live the king!" "Long live the king!" "Noble Prince." "So what if the king breaks through?" "Will he really be able to crush Khmelnytsky and beat off the Tatar Horde?" "The king is opposed by Bohun's regiment, and I think he'll never break through to us." "What shall we do, then?" "Surrender Zbarazh and plead for a truce with Khmelnytsky." "Surrender Zbarazh?" "!" "And with our own hands open the gate to the very heart of the great Poland?" "Your fear has left you with not a drop of your former bravery!" "You want to disgrace our motherland together with Khmelnytsky?" "I won't surrender Zbarazh!" "And I won't share your shame with you!" "Vivat, Poland!" "Vivat, Poland!" "Vivat, Poland!" "Excuse me." "Serene Prince." "Hetman Khmelnytsky sent his envoy to you." "Khmelnytsky?" "An envoy?" "With a secret letter for you." "I don't have any secrets with Hetman Khmelnytsky from our szlachta nobility." "Show the envoy in." "You see, dear guests, that scoundrel found out that the king is coming to us, and he already hurries up with his proposals." "Excuse me." "Greetings to all, and to you, serene Prince." "The serene and great Hetman Khmelnytsky sends to your princely worship this letter." "To his worship Prince Vyshnevets'ky." "Read it, serene Prince." "How could my letter, which I sent to the king, end up in your hands?" "I was only ordered to pass the letter." "Read what Khmelnytsky wrote." "We cut off the head of your warship's messenger, and are returning your letter to the king intact." "Don't be naive." "The siege of Zbarazh is such that only a bird can fly out of here." "And only if the bird has good wings." "As for the king, don't worry, we'll go to his majesty ourselves and decide everything." "Therefore, I advise you, serene Prince, to surrender without fighting." "You came to me with such mean news and was not afraid of dying?" "You don't fear dying when you know that for your head there will be killed... thousands of your enemy." "You serf!" "I'll kill you!" "He is an envoy!" "An envoy?" "He's the worst beast Morozenko!" "He's all smeared with our blood and the blood of our children." "I want to take a look into his death." "Sheathe the sabers!" "Sheathe them!" "There is no Cossack who would not like to measure swords with the first saber of the Rzech Pospolita * army." "[* - polish state]" "Thank you for the honor." "Oh, merciful God!" "O Lord, please save him..." "Papa!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Young knight!" "Thank you for granting life!" "He granted it to you, serf!" "Thank you!" "One can't understand you Poles." "The father grants death, the son - life." "Excuse me, excuse me, serene Prince." "It's trouble." "Mutiny." "The bourgeois and soldiers demand that we open the gates for Bohdan's army." "What will be your orders?" "What shall we do, Yarеma?" "Calm down!" "Wine for everybody." "I myself will suppress the mutineers." "I won't let you go alone." "We'll go with you." "The honorable Prince, what will be your answer to Khmelnytsky?" "You've been granted life." "That is my answer to your Khmelnytsky." "And now I came to see you, and with gifts." "This is for you." "Thank you!" "Thank you, Nechai, you humored me." "How are you, Bohdan?" "How are you, brother?" "I've brought you a more important present - your enemy." "Czaplinski." "The murderer of your son." "Bring him in." "How on earth you, the murderer of my son, could have come into my hands?" "Didn't you know that I'd cut your head off?" "Didn't you?" "Answer me." "I did." "Because you started that cruel war of vengeance just to get to me." "The war?" "A bastard like you doesn't deserve that much honor." "Though there is a grain of truth in your words." "You killed my son." "Stole my wife." "Robbed and burned my house." "And you Poles sentenced me to death." "For crimes like these" "I could have started a war with the whole wide world." "But the blood of my child is only one drop" "in the sea of our blood." "Come on, cut it off, but you should know that I'm not afraid of losing my life," "I only regret that it isn't me who will cut your head off." "I'm letting you go." "Go!" "Out of my sight!" "I would like to pay you off for granting me life." "Go on, pay." "Prince Vyshnevets'ky, Ostorog, all the commanders, soldiers, hussars * [* - polish knigts] removed the blockage in the secret underground tunnel and at nighttime slipped out of the castle to join Casimierzh's army." "You can go." "What about her?" "My wife?" "She can go, too." "You did steal her, but let her decide." "Good morning, Ivan." "Serene Hetman, the regiments are ready for storming." " Good." " They're lined up and waiting for you." "Bohdan!" "Bohdan!" "Let me through!" "Excuse me, serene Hetman, the Cossacks brought a Polish nobleman." "He demands to see you immediately, he has some very important news." "Bring him here." "Bring him in." "Jasinski?" "It wasn't me!" "I'm not the murderer of your son!" "They forced me." "I brought you what you've been waiting for two years." "What neither the king nor the Sejm * wanted to give you." "[* - polish parlament]" "This gift nearly cost me my life." "It's Czaplinski's head." "It was he who made me kill your son!" "Bat'ko!" "Bat'ko!" "Bat'ko!" "* [*" " Father, in ukrainian]" "Have mercy!" "Pardon me!" "I know everything!" "I'll tell you all!" "And about her, too!" "Shut up!" " For pity's sake!" "Bat'ko!" " Shut up!" "My children!" "The time has come to punish the mutineers for our defeats at Zhovti Vody, at Korsun, at Pylyavtsi!" "I'm your king!" "I'll always be with you!" "Glory to the warriors of Rzech Pospolita!" "Glorious knights of the Zaporozhian army!" "Don't spare the God's enemy!" "Prince Vyshnevets'ky." "How do you know me, craftsman?" "It's you, Prince, who had my eye put out and my finger cut off." " For what sin?" " For the banduras. * [* - national ukr. musical instr.]" "I see you're still making them?" "I am." "And I will till I die." "It means you won't any more." "Show me your personal product." "A fine sound." "My mother, your Patriarch Mogyla's sister, wanted me to learn how to play the bandura, buying me the best ones." "Now, perhaps you'll give me this one as a gift?" "And I'll give it to your hetman when I catch him." "You swore to me that you'd never make banduras again." "Yes, I did." "You violated your oath." "You see?" "And I swore to God that none of your bells would ring again and none of your banduras would play." "I can't violate my oath!" "For you swore to God, and I swore only to you." "Your hand." "Lay it down on your bandura." "For the sake of your death," "I'll lay down my head, not only my hand." "Lay it down." "Goodbye, boys." "Go on making them, dear." "Help me, God." "Put it down." "Captain, shoot them all, hack them to pieces and burn down!" "Bohdan!" "What happened, Nechai?" "Why are you here?" "Retreating, the Poles set a bridge on fire, now they're getting to another." "What shall we do?" "Why did you ride here yourself?" "Didn't you have anyone to send here?" "I missed you so badly." "Me, too." "You say they're forcing their way to the bridge?" "All right, we'll do it this way." "We'll let the Poles go on the bridge and then strike from both sides." "Oh, God!" "It's retribution!" "Retribution!" "Retribution!" "The night of August 5, 1649" "Jan Casimierzh wishes good health" "to the Crimean Khan" "Islam-Giray." "Your high majesty is very much indebted" "to my brother, the most beloved" "king of Poland" "Wladyslaw." "To show your gratitude," "stop the war against Rzech Pospolita." "I promise to pay you the debt for two years" "in the sum of 200,000." "Two hundred?" "Two hundred thousand zloty's. * [* - polish money]" "For breaking off with Khmelnytsky," "I promise to pay you every year" "90 thousand." "Isn't it too much?" "We're not paying yet, just promising." "Besides, the Crimean Horde's breakup with Khmelnytsky is invaluable to us." "Sefar Kazi." "Fly like an arrow to the king and tell him that I've come here not for warring, but for establishing peace between the Cossacks and Poland." "Even if Bohdan doesn't agree," "I'll talk him into it." "By all means!" "No!" "I don't believe a single word of the khan and I don't need his help." "Tell Islam-Giray that the Polish hussars are Europe's most formidable warriors in command of the ultimate weapons, and they can score a victory over both the Tatars and the Cossacks." "And if, for our victory, it takes the sun to never set, my knights can delay it at the points of their spears." "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that here, at Zboriv, the Pylyavtsi tragedy might be repeated." "Shut up!" "Our shameful defeat at Pylyavtsi weighs wholly on your conscience, Pan Zaslavsky." "I appointed you the commander, and you're going to answer to me for that defeat!" "It's true that I received a letter from the king, and I came here to tell you the most important thing." "Although the king has deprived you of hetmanship," "I'll be on your side to the end." "I won't leave either you or your warriors in time of adversity." "It wasn't the king who gave me the mace, so it's not for him to take it away." "The Zaporozhian Sich elected me a hetman, so no one can replace me." "Because my boot stands on the throat of Rzech Pospolita." "If I press down, all its blood will flow out, to the last drop." "The King of Poland pays tribute to me, not to you." "And something else." "Jan Casimierzh's brother, the late king, saved my life." "And I won't let anyone fully destroy Poland." "You can beat their army - it's war." "But don't touch the king." "He belongs to me." "Bullets can't tell the difference." "My arrows can, let your bullets learn to tell the difference, too." "Remember it." "So you're saying the king is yours?" "Yes, the king is mine." "And only I shall appoint a price for him." "No, not only you!" "It's not for your "l" that Ukraine is knee-deep in blood." "We are, too." "We have common blood." "Didn't we agree in Bakhchisaray to start this war?" "Wasn't it with Tugay Bey and his warriors that you scored your first victories which stunned all Europe?" "You and I are bound by the bloody chains of war." "And not only by them." "So tomorrow we go to battle together?" "Together." "Jan Casimierzh will soon be in my hands!" "Her Majesty Rzech Pospolita will have to experience the last moment of her power over the Cossacks!" "Trouble!" "Despite your courage and faith in victory, the troops are fleeing!" "Captains Bilec'ky and Litnits'ki fled from the battlefield with banners." "Announce to all the army that they're fugitives!" "The traitors shall be deprived of rights and honor, the captains will be executed!" "Your Majesty, Khmelnytsky's army is enormous, plus the Tatar Horde." "Even if we all die, the life and faith of the king is a guarantee of the integrity of Rzech Pospolita." "And we must do everything in order to take you secretly out of this hell." "I'm saying in all honesty that never and at no price shall I show an example of shameful fear, which is the reason we always lose everything, for we're unable to hold on to the end." "I'm ready to fight and die together with you." "You should know that bullets hit those who are doomed by heavens." "And heavens are with us!" "I urgently beg Your Majesty to leave the battlefield at once." "You are in deadly danger." "No!" "Let everybody see the king on the battlefield!" "And be proud of his courage!" "Let our enemies see him and fear us." "And death..." "Death will find the guilty!" "Fire!" "I beseech you in the name of God!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "I'm your king!" "My children!" "Traitors!" "Stop!" "You'll be damned by God!" "Stop, traitors!" "Stop!" "I'll stab you!" "I'll stab everyone who will show his back to the enemy!" "My children!" "I'm your king!" "I beg you!" "I beg you, my children!" "I'm your king!" "Stop!" "Your Majesty, Khmelnytsky with his men!" "To arms!" "Don't shoot!" "Hide the weapons!" "Don't shoot!" "Sheathe the sabers!" "On behalf of Ukraine, I grant freedom to His Majesty the King of Rzech Pospolita." "May God save you." "Bogun!" "I order you to help His Majesty leave the battlefield." "You personally are answerable for his life with your head." "Your Majesty..." "I..." "Here." "It's a sundial." "Oh, it's a true wonder!" "I've never seen anything so beautiful." "It's the first time I've made something like this." "For you." "And what reward do you expect from the hetman?" "Nothing from the hetman." "But from you..." "A kiss." "Excuse me for not knocking." "Please pass my present to His Highness the Hetman." "And now accept my present." "Next time, I'll kill you!" "Why do you hate me so much?" "There's nothing to love you for." "I know everything!" "What?" "What do you know?" "That you're unfaithful to my father!" "You're lying, and you will answer before your father for these words." "And you will answer before your husband for your treason." "I know everything." "I'll tell him everything." "And if you dodge and lie," "I'll swear to father by the Gospels and by all saints that I know all!" "And I'm not going to swear." "I possess the charms that are stronger than any oaths." "Besides, you've got no proof of my unfaithfulness." "If I had proof, you wouldn't have been alive." " There's important news from Paris." " What news?" "The Chancellor of Rzech Pospolita asked for military aid from France." " What did the French answer?" " We couldn't find out yet." "Find it out at any price." "Remind the French that 2,600 Cossacks with me at their head helped them recently fight the Spaniards for the port of Dunkirk." "Bohdan, a message from the Lord Protector of England Cromwell." "Writing in French, son of a bitch." "He knows I don't command English." "Soon they all will write in our language." "To Khmelnytsky, by God's grace Generalissimo of the Greco-Eastern Church, the leader of all Zaporozhian Cossacks, the conqueror of the Antichrist's fortresses." "He knows whom he's writing to!" "You're unfaithful to my father." "If I had proof, you wouldn't have been alive." "Bohdan, you've let the king free." "See how the Poles are returning your kindness?" "You should have cut off the king's head, instead of granting him freedom!" "The king was anointed by God!" "Oh, my God!" "What misfortune has brought you here?" "Something happened at home?" "No." "Tymish sent me with an important message." "Paperski, whom you delegated to organize a rebellion in Poland, informs us that it may break out at any moment now." "O God, help him!" "How are my children?" "They miss you very much." "There's a letter from them to you." "In this hard times, you have been a mother and a father to them." "Oh, stop that." "Tymish intercepted Czaplinski's letter to Helena." "He writes that he'll try to take her from you through the court." "What?" "He was killed." "No, Jasinski lied then, to make you pardon him." "For the first time in my life" "I don't regret not having pardoned him!" "Mikhail, this is my order!" "Don't let anyone in to see his serene highness the Hetman!" "Bohdan, if you don't want to see me, who's going mad from love, then what do I need my life for if I don't have any place in your heart?" "And I live only for you." "Only when you hold me, I'm experiencing real pleasure." "Please, I'm begging you, tell me," "I'm imploring you in the name of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, wasn't it Anna who ran away to a convent that so disturbed you?" "Isn't it your love for her?" "Don't you touch Anna." "What else can I do if jealousy is burning me like fire?" "Jealousy is a terrible torment." "And woe to those who let it into their hearts." " Have you heard the news?" " What news?" " Czaplinski is alive!" " What?" "But Jasinski brought us his cut-off head." "That was not Czaplinski's head." "It's not for you to speak of jealousy." "You can hurt and punish me, but you should know that even back in Zbarazh I wanted to see you and tell you that I love only you." "You're my life." "I became a victim of violence!" "And your secret correspondence with that bigot in Subotiv?" "And your voluntary escape?" "And the wedding?" "Was it violence, too?" "You can't deceive me." "I know everything." "Your servants told me." "I was forced." "It was violence." "No, from such violence one turns gray overnight, or throw oneself down a deadly abyss." "Life is more horrible than death." "It would be a hundred times easier for me to die than go on living in awful anguish and disgrace." "And I could go on living only because of my love for you, but you won't believe me!" "I wish I could believe you." "But I cannot." "Of course, it's easy for you not to believe me now." "You're a hetman and I'm a defenseless slave." "You could believe me when I rushed to you from a prince's house and, forgetting about shame, gave myself to you." "You could believe then?" "When all Poland was predicting your end, when I could get just everything for my beauty, all honors, all riches." "But I came to you, gave myself to you." " Could you believe me then?" " Yes, I could." "There was no betrayal then." "Please, for God's sake, if you ever loved me, if you love me now, tell me the truth." "I'll forgive everything." "Get up, Bohdan." "You're too great to stand on your knees before me." "My love is greater than me." "To the noblest and most powerful Jan Casimierzh, by God's grace King of Poland," "Grand Duke of Lithuania, Moscovia..." "Read on." "We are all in deadly danger, surrounded from all sides." "Not only people, but horses too, are starving." "There is neither fodder nor bread." "Khmelnytsky's men have poisoned everything." "Hunger and diseases are killing our soldiers by hundreds." "We ask to send reinforcement - 1 ,000 hussars, 4,000 dragoons, 18,000 soldiers," "6,000 foreign infantrymen." "Happy to be yours forever, loyal and true servant of Your Royal Majesty," "Crowned Hetman Potocki." "The letter." " You can go." " Yes!" "Potocki!" "Potocki!" "What had I redeemed you from Tatar captivity for?" "It's true what the Cossacks say:" ""Three hundred Potocki's are not worth one Khmelnytsky!"" "There will be no peace for the Polish crown until we destroy the Zaporozhian Sich." "That dragon is so hardy: in place of one cutoff head, 100 new ones sprout." "But soon I'll cut off the main head with my own hands." "I challenged Hetman Khmelnytsky to joust in the steppe." "I forbid it emphatically." "I've made up my mind." "Even God Himself won't stop me." "What?" "Did he agree?" "I deem it a great honor to come out for a joust with such glorious warrior as Prince Vyshnevets'ky." "I accept with special pleasure your manly challenge, serene and great Prince." "Bohdan Khmelnytsky." "Written in person." "Indeed, there's not enough room on this earth for both of us." "Serene Hetman." "Is it time?" "No." "Vyshnevets'ky's messenger said that the prince suddenly fell ill, a fit of epilepsy, so he can't come for a joust." "Or, perhaps, he just got scared." "Prince Vyshnevets'ky knows no fear." "O God, help him!" "Call the doctor!" "Papa!" "Papa!" "Dear Papa!" "Please don't die!" "My darling!" "July 22, 1649" "Was that you?" "You ordered your serfs to drown my legions?" "Yes, it was I!" "But they surrendered to you without fighting!" "That was my vengeance to Prince Vishnevetsky for his ordering to kill 3,000 wounded and sick Cossacks at Dubno." "Into the fire!" "Oh, God!" "It hurts!" "Don't shoot!" "Helena!" "My beloved!" "Bohdan!" "My God, how could you decide to come to this horrible hell?" "My darling!" "My beloved!" "It's more frightening without you, Bohdan." "My darling!" "But how, how could this disaster have happened?" "All..." "All guilty will have their heads cut off." "You can go." "You can go." "What happened?" "I wanted to arrange a feast for you, but I failed." "You..." "You... are my feast..." "That's it." "The battle is over." "Peace!" "I order not to spare gunpowder." "May this monstrosity be wiped off our memory, off our land!" "Believe me, Pan Khmelnytsky, I'm truly glad to meet you." "January 1 , 1651" "I'm granting you a hetman's mace decorated with sapphires and the title of noble hetman." "Thank you, Your Majesty." "And this is the king's deed whereby we agree with the reasons for bloody strife that you set forth in your letter to me, and find the Zaporozhian Army not guilty." "Moreover," "I promise to restore all your ancient rights of knighthood." "From now on, all Cossacks will be titled Zaporozhian knights." "I recognized you as a noble hetman." "Now you recognize me as a supreme governor of the great God." "What the king says," "God says, too." "I recognize it." "God is my witness." "Then we got only one thing left to do " "sign a treaty and put an end" "to bloodshed and strife." "All I think about is how to bring peace and quiet to our land." "I dream of uniting our lands into a great princedom" "within its ethnic borders." "But remember." "There cannot be a lasting civil peace wherever religious peace is violated." "I sincerely regret not being able to attend the reception in your honour." "I have to go to Warsaw at once." "Both of us will still have to struggle for our agreement." "Szlachta noblemen!" "Now that we've had enough to drink," "I'd like to tell you something." "May this reunion be the evidence that our home war has ended today." "Praise the Lord!" "His Majesty the King did a great favor to the honorable Pan Khmelnytsky by letting him retain the high title of the Hetman of Zaporozhian Army." "Glory to the Hetman!" "Glory to the King!" "You're a courageous man." "A worthy knight." "I believe that you, too, will pay back to Rzech Pospolita with your loyal service." "Fireworks in your honor, Pan Hetman." "The crowned Hetman, the honorable Prince Vyshnevets'ky," "the Hetman of Lithuania, gentlemen, brothers!" "I'm not thinking of war." "Only of peace!" "The honorable gentlemen!" "To the health of Pan Hetman!" "Thank you all!" "If, gentlemen, you decided to make me drunk, then I should tell you that you don't have enough wine for that in all Rzech Pospolita." "We have not only Polish and Lithuanian liquors." "We have liquors from all over the world!" "Do you call this liquors?" "This is..." "Shit." "The honorable gentlemen!" "French wine for Pan Hetman!" "The crowned Hetman!" "Maybe we'll ask Hetman Khmelnytsky to show us his Cossack dance?" "And why not, the honorable gentlemen?" "Please, Pan Hetman." "Why not?" "I can dance for you." "Only there's not enough room here." "If only on the table!" "I'm joking." "Dance on the table." "You're allowed everything today." "Really, brothers, why not dance on the table of the king of Rzech Pospolita himself, eh?" "A saber!" "Well?" "Where's that goblet with French wine?" "Pan Hetman." "You permitted yourself to dance on the king's table." "You should know that in all history no one has ever defiled Rzech Pospolita as you did, you ignoble serf!" "It was I who allowed him to dance on the table." "A goblet of wine for the Hetman!" "Serene Hetman, please drink to the health of the most serene and noble King of Rzech Pospolita." "To the health of the noblest King Jan Casimierzh!" "You're unworthy!" "Thank you for the warm reception." "Goodbye." " I'll show you out." " Please." "Noble Hetman." "Did you realize that they wanted to poison you?" "But I would have never let that crime happen." "That would have cost you your life." "The honor of a Pole and of my country is more precious to me than my life." "Nechai!" "How are you, my brother?" "What's the matter with you, Danilo?" "So that's what it is, serene Hetman?" "Are you abandoning us?" "Us, whom you were to protect!" "Have you gone absolutely blind and can't see how those mean Poles bought you with the goodies of the Zboriv agreement?" "In order to destroy us all later!" "Don't you understand that they want to disarm you by causing you to quarrel with your loyal knights, with your Zaporozhian Army, which elected you a hetman?" "I've arrived here with several thousand Cossacks." "They want to ask you." "Was it in vain that they were giving their lives for you, shedding their blood in battles?" "Are you really going to let the Poles, who couldn't win over us on the battlefield," "crush us by your own will with your ignoble treaty?" "Shut up!" "The treaty of Zboriv doesn't mean peace, it's just ashes with which I smothered the fire," "for it to rekindle later into a greater flame!" "I'm not going to wait for that fire to rekindle," "I myself will fan the flames all over Ukraine." "And if I haven't found my calling in struggle," "I'll find it in death." "And you do as you like." "If you like bondage - live in bondage." "We'll elect another hetman, who will be ready to give even his life for us." "Farewell!" "Halt!" "If my life can bring freedom to all of us..." "Take it!" "Cut it off!" "I'm sorry." "Once I already ordered to cut off the head of a power-loving man who declared himself the hetman of the Sich." "I'm not declaring myself a hetman, but I'll be killing the Poles until I die, in spite of your treaty with the king." "You're leaving me nothing else... but my love for you." "Did you call me, serene and great Hetman?" "I'm not accepting such piety from you." "If I were really serene and great for you, you wouldn't have shamed my name" "and the Cossack honor." "Read it!" "I don't understand." "What are you talking about?" "The Chancellor's complaining about you." "The szlachta claims that for my deeds, for the right of the owners to return to their estates, you fleece them of 200-300 zloty's each." "Do you?" "This is slander!" "Slander!" "Slander!" "Next time I won't miss." "I'll cut them off up to your elbows!" "You've cut my head off." "Why didn't Bohdan protect his warriors?" "The Poles killed them for participating in his war." "Bohdan betrayed us." "As did all his leadership, may they be damned forever!" "By his Zboriv treaty with the king he's dug a grave for all of us." "And not only for us!" "He dug a grave for all Ukraine." "May he get a hundred sores in his liver!" "I'm Bohdan." "I'm your Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky." "You're lying!" "Lying!" "That tyrant wouldn't have come here!" "Tell us, who are you, son of a bitch?" "Tell us the truth." "Speak up!" "He's the hetman." "I recognized him." "If I dug a grave for Ukraine, if I'm guilty, then bury me, too, alive, together with those who lay down for it." "Dig me in!" "And we will!" "Good people, come to your senses!" "What are you doing?" "!" "He's our hetman, sent by God!" "He's a traitor!" "May he be cursed!" "No trust, no forgiveness for him!" "Come to your senses!" "You're really godless people!" "I beg you, stop!" "Don't anger God!" "Don't defile the grave of the dead with your quarrels and sinfulness." "I beseech you in the name of God!" "O God!" "Forgive me, the sinner!" "I didn't want this to happen." "To the great Tsar by God's grace and Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich," "the autocrat of Moscow Tsardom." "A new war of Rzech Pospolita against the Cossacks' Ukraine is inevitable." "I ask Your Majesty" "to threaten the Crimea with war if the Tatar Horde dare to side with Khmelnytsky." "He has already approached Turkey, asking for military aid." "What did Turkey answer to Khmelnytsky?" "The Sultan ordered the Crimean Khan to support Khmelnytsky with a 40,000-strong horde." "In this case, we'll also send our warriors to help the Polish king." "I won't participate in their war." "By no means can you act so, Your Majesty." "Thereby we shall violate the peace treaty with Poland which your father ratified by an oath of kissing the cross." "I didn't take any oath, nor did I... kiss the cross." "You will commit the greatest sin, which can be pardoned only by the ecumenical council." "Since the fall of the second Rome" " Byzantium, I, the Tsar of Moscow, has been considered the bulwark of Orthodox faith, and Moscow the third Rome." "Besides, Your Holiness," "I'm more interested in Ukraine and Crimea than in Poland." "The serene and great Hetman of Ukraine!" "Accept the saber of colonel Danylo Nechai as his last gift from him." "That was his dying wish." "How did this tragedy happen?" "February 10, 1651" "Answer me!" "Where did you hide colonel Nechai?" "Nechai isn't in the church!" "Believe me, there're only wounded, disarmed Cossacks here!" "Ready!" "Fire!" "I told you, Nechai isn't here!" "Only the wounded Cossacks." " Fire!" " Don't shoot!" "If you don't tell me where Nechai is, I'll burn your church down!" "Together with you!" "Ready!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "In the name of God, please don't turn the church into a battlefield!" "I'm asking you for the last time." "Where's Nechai?" "You won't tell?" "Fire!" "Fire!" "Fire!" "I order to find all the wounded Cossacks and shoot them." "The holy fathers hid colonel Nechai pretty high." "Nearer to God." "Take colonel Nechai's body as the proof of his death." "Take the gold, silver and jewels, but leave the body of the deceased to us." "Allow us to bury him properly." "We don't want your silver, gold and jewels." "And remember!" "The Poles never sell great military leaders!" "Listen to my order." "All the churches shall hold a funeral service for Nechai." "It will take a long time for Ukraine to give birth to another military leader like him." "How?" "How could I let him die?" "Never!" "Never shall I forgive myself for this!" "I've listened to your proposals with great attention." "Unfortunately, I can't accept any of them." "Brother colonels!" "My plan is like this:" "as quick as possible force our way farther and farther west." "Why do we need it, Bohdan?" "In order to fight the king's army on the Rzech Pospolita's turf." "We've already flooded our land with blood up to our neck." "It's madness!" "Going to where we're hated, where we won't get either help or food..." "Armies have always been fed by the lands where wars are raging." "I'm against your plan." " I'm against it, too." " Listen to us, Bohdan." "You may mutilate my other shoulder, but I'm against it." "If today anyone of you can take upon yourself the responsibility" "for the consequences of the coming war," "I'll pass all my power over to him." "Take it." "Take it." "Take it!" "No one says anything?" "Then remember." "At this tragic moment," "I will mercilessly cut off the heads, not the shoulders, of foolishly unruly opposition!" "May 6, 1651" "You're here already!" "I would have come to see you even if it had cost me my life." "We must be careful." "I'm afraid the hetman's bastard is spying on us." "No, no, he's left for Zolotaryovo on some military business." "He said he'd be back only tomorrow after lunch." "I came in without knocking again." "I'll kill you!" "You killed him..." "I promised to kill him." "Then kill me, too." "Disgrace the great hetman all over Ukraine." "You've already disgraced him all over the world." "And I shall kill not the hetman's wife, but a traitor." "You'll fire at me, but you'll hit your father's heart." "There're great wives who can remain faithful even to a dead man." "And you betrayed a living one." "If..." "If you... never loved me," "then kill me now." "When you first appeared in our house," "I was really bewitched by you." "But then you were calling father your uncle the savior, who rescued you from destruction." "How else could I call him when he had a wife confined to her bed because of an illness?" "I felt jealous of everyone, even my father." "And then..." "I was truly happy for him," "I thought it was God who sent him such a great love for all his suffering." "And you... betrayed his love." "This is perhaps your most difficult journey." "After committing such a mortal sin, Tymish had to go himself to plead with his father to pardon him, instead of sending his sister." "So that father would kill him?" "He wanted to." "I didn't let him." "See how the warriors greet you?" "They're greeting the carriage of the hetman's son." " Papa!" " My daughter!" " My darling daughter!" " Papa!" "Even the Almighty God couldn't have thought of a better present for me than your visit!" "Oh, God..." "Something happened at home?" "It is alleged that you gave an order to interrogate and torture the hetman's wife." "Torture my wife?" "Burn her with iron?" "Not trust even the hetman's wife?" "Whom can we trust then, daughter?" "Where?" "Where lies the limit to law?" "Tymish strangled her and ordered to hang her from his father's gate, next to her lover." "Oh, my God!" "My God!" "He killed me... my own son!" "I don't want to live without her." "Father, my darling!" "You have to go back to Chyhyryn right now." "Tomorrow the king's envoys are arriving." "It's just in time... that the envoys are coming..." "Serene Hetman!" "I have the honor to hand you a message from the serene king of Rzech Pospolita" "Jan Casimierzh." "Please, honorable Pan. * [* - accost to noble man]" "Bohdan, this is the king's message!" "We won't tolerate such an insult!" "Well..." "Then it's war." "Bon appetite, gentlemen, the king's envoys." "Glorious knights of the Zaporozhian army!" "Jan Casimierzh, the king of Poland, broke the peace agreement with us, declared a war," "and threatens to destroy us all." "Let us be sure that no one in the world can destroy us" "if we don't destroy ourselves." "Brothers!" "At this difficult hour the Ukraine is looking at us again" "with her eyes filled with tears." "Poland and the king will pay dearly for their bloody villainy." "Not a single tear of our mothers will remain" "unavenged, not a single" "drop of blood." "My friends!" "We'll go to L'viv, to Galych," "to Peremyshl, to Kholm!" "Wherever our language and faith can reach to," "there will be Ukraine!"