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Zakhar Berkut

Zakhar Berkut

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 3, 1972

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

49%

Original Title

Захар Беркут

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

Director

Leonid Osyka

Description

This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.