The legendary and mysterious figure of Ivan Mazepa still attracts attention. Ordinary people and European writers and poets keep telling for many centuries the stories of his adventures and love affairs. When he abandoned serving at the court of Polish King Jan Kazimierz, Mazepa met his future wife, Hanna, a young widow of a colonel. But having diplomatic skills and being educated in Europe, he did not abandon serving for the Ukrainian leaders: he worked for both Right-bank and Left-bank Hetmans. And soon, he became the Hetman of Ukraine on the both banks of Dnipro river. Find out about the story of life and activity of one of the most powerful men in Europe, Hetman 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”