A young man, Ivan, is forcefully mobilised and sent to fight in the Caucasian War as a soldier of the Russian Empire by his landlord, leaving his wife behind. In the Caucasus, Ivas experiences the fierce local resistance to the Russian military, and returns home to launch an uprising against the Russian government.

Genres

Cast

Ivan Tverdokhlib

Ivan

Polina Nyatko

Kateryna

Danylo Antonovych

Havrylov, the revolutionary

Ivan Shtraukh

Zhukov, the merchant

Hnat Yura

Sydorenko, Svichka's manager

Nataliia Uzhvii

Nastasia Markivna

Ivan Marianenko

General Ladanskyi

Vladimir Yershov

Nicholas I of Russia

Shota Nozadze

Georgian prisoner

Mykola Nademskyi

Taras Shevchenko