In 1638, Khmelnytsky was elected as the scribe of the Zaporizhian Host. Soon, he and the Cossacks fulfilled a special assignment of the Polish King Wladyslaw IV, who had once awarded Bohdan with his sword. The Cossack chaika boats fought against the Turkish Sultan. During that military campaign, Khmelnytsky freed a beautiful captive. Find out about how beautiful Helena entered Bohdan’s life – in the documentary series “The Game of Fate” by VIATEL Studio narrated by Natalka Sopit.
- Script by Vasyl Viter
- Narrations Natali Sopit, Taras Denysenko
- Directed by Vasyl Viter
- Director of photography Georgij Kryvoshejenko
- Sound Oleg Golovoshkin, Sergij Savchenko
- Editor Oleg Tudoran
- Make up Maria Pilunska
- Kostume LAURA ASHLEY ™ Hutro Tysmenytsa™,
- Music De Wolfe Music
- Camera Oleksandr Demydenko
- Executive producer Halyna Kryvorchuk
- Producer Vasyl Viter
The shooting took place at:
- at the Lviv Art Gallery (Olesko, Zolochiv, Pidhirtsi)
- at the Baturyn State Historical and Cultural Reserve “The Hetman’s Capital”
- at the Khortytsia National Reserve
- at the Lviv Historical Museum
- at the Kamianets-Podilskyi State Historical Museum-Reserve
- at the National Historical and Cultural Reserve “Chyhyryn”
- at the Subotiv Historical Museum
- at the battlefield of the Pyliavska Battle
- at the Institute of Folk Studies of the National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine in Lviv (Museum of Ethnography and Arts) - at the “Castles of Ternopillia” National Reserve
- at the “Pereiaslav” National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve
- in the St. Michael Cathedral of the Vydubychi Monastery
- at the Secondary School No. 62 in Lviv
We used:
- the fragments from the novel by Mykhailo Starytskyi “Bohdan Khmelnytsky”
- the reproductions of paintings of the XVII-XVIII centuries
from Ukrainian and European museums - the paintings by Andriy Kholomyniuk from the Art Gallery of the L.I. Medved Institute of Ecohygiene and Toxicology
- the materials of the Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine - the fragments of the films :
“Ivan the Terrible”, “Mister Volodyievskyi”, “Bohdan Khmelnytsky”, “The Flood”, “Borys Godunov”, “Taras Bulba”, “The Path to the Sich”, “Bohdan Zynovii Khmelnytsky”