"The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice."
Aleksey Petrenko
as Bogdan Khmelnitsky
Bohdan Stupka
as Briukhovetsky
Oleksandr Bondarenko
as Hetman Somko
Serhii Romaniuk
as Shram
Bohdan Beniuk
as Cherevan
Ruslana Pysanka
as Cherevan's wife
Radmila Shegoleva
as Lesya
Ksenia Kovaliova
as Polish princess
Stepan Oleksenko
as Gvintovka
Mykola Boklan
as Kirilo Tur
Nikolay Oleynik
as
Iryna Melnyk
Anatoli Mokrenko
Konstantin Shaforenko
as Shramenko
Vladimir Volkov
as boyar
Viktor Polishchuk
Vitali Rosstalnoy
as Pugach
Grigori Shton
Screenplay
Oleksandr Chorny
Director of Photography
Ihor Poklad
Music
Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko
Writer
Director
Panteleimon Kulish
Novel