Ivan Mazepa. It is hard to find a more vaunted and mysterious figure in Ukrainian history. He was a legend. For centuries, people keep telling the stories of his adventures and love affairs. A young man sent by his father to serve the Polish King Jan Kazimierz acquired at the court the reputation of a page, a poet, and a philanderer. Find out about the first steps made by Ivan Mazepa in life, politics, and love, and of the romantic image of the naked horseman, poetized by many European authors, in the first part of the film “Ivan Mazepa” 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
- Editor Oleg Tudoran
- Make up Maria Pilunska
- Costume LAURA ASHLEY ™
- 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 Chernihiv Oblast Historical Museum named after V.V. Tarnavskyi
– at the National Architectural and Historical Reserve “The Ancient Chernihiv”
– at the Baturyn State Historical and Cultural Reserve “The Hetman’s Capital”
– at the Local History Museum of Bila Tserkva
– in the Dendrological Park “Oleksandriia” of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Bila Tserkva city
– in the village of Mazepyntsi, village of Velykopolovetske
We used:
– the fragments from the poem by Volodymyr Sosiura “Mazepa”
– the novel by Yurii Khorunzhyi “If You Have Love – You Have Peace”
– the reproductions of portraits of the first half of the XVII century from the funds of European museums
– the paintings of contemporary Ukrainian artists:
-Vasyl Lopata, Mykola Danchenko, Volodymyr Kravchenko, Andrii Ivanenko, Kira Shevchenko, Volodymyr Kokhal
– the materials of the National Art Museum of Ukraine
– the literature of the Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
– the documents of the Hetmanate Muzeum
– the fragments of films “Peter the Great”, “Mister Volodiievskyi”, “Countess Kossel”, “Bohdan Khmelnytskyi”, “The Flood”, “Borys Hodunov”