Film
Cossacks in Exile
Canada · United States- Director
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- Year
- 1939
In Ukraine, in 1775, the Zaporogian Cossacks learn that Moscow is sending soldiers to destroy their fort. The Ukrainian villagers appeal to Czarina Catherine, but she insists that they join the Russian army or risk annihilation. Instead, the Cossacks burn their fort and flee on the Danube River to Turkey, where they live in peace, but still yearn for their homeland.
Top cast
Directed by
Edgar G. Ulmer
Written by
Vasile Avramenko
Produced by
Vasile Avramenko