It is no wonder that people keep telling the legends about him for centuries. When he became the Hetman, Ivan Mazepa made Baturyn his capital. He built a palace in Honcharivka village and lived there together with his wife Hanna. Soon, he became a widower. But fate sent Mazepa great love again. Find out about the story of his goddaughter Motria, who became his unforgettable love in his later years – 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”