Story of his life and memory of him are still relevant. He was and still is the legendary figure for Ukraine. Ivan Mazepa was the Hetman of Ukraine for more than twenty years. What did fate send him in the decline of his years? That was the choice of the future path for Ukraine and a conflict with Russian Tsar Peter, the great mission before his people, and the last love to Polish Countess Hanna Dolska, Great aims and lost hopes. Find out about how ended the earthly life of 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”