This movie has very little to do with actual history and is, as one might expect, since it's a book by Sinkiewicz, ridiculously one-sided. Good Poles, bad Cossacks (Ukrainians). A very much needed fairy tale in the times when Sinkiewicz wrote it, as he intended to rise patriotism in a nation that had to find its identity again. But why would a movie be made now, when what's needed for both countries (Poland and Ukraine) is an attempt to show common history from neutral perspective? Enough lies and tales have been written.
P.S. A little piece of interesting info - "Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Chmielnicki)" a.k.a. Bohdan Stupka is a Minister of Culture of Ukraine. Ruslana Pysanka (Horyna the whitch) is a weather reporter on one of Ukraine's channels, Inter. Gained a lot of weight recently, LOL. And a piece of historical info - Ivan Bohun (the evil guy) in reality was a Scottish nobleman turned Cossack...
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P.S. A little piece of interesting info - "Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Chmielnicki)" a.k.a. Bohdan Stupka is a Minister of Culture of Ukraine. Ruslana Pysanka (Horyna the whitch) is a weather reporter on one of Ukraine's channels, Inter. Gained a lot of weight recently, LOL. And a piece of historical info - Ivan Bohun (the evil guy) in reality was a Scottish nobleman turned Cossack...
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