Prometheus

Prometheus is a 1936 Ukrainian Soviet historical film directed by Ivan Kavaleridze. The film is an adaptation of the 1845 poem by Taras Shevchenko. At the centre of the development of Ukrainian cinema during the 1930s, the film was banned by Soviet censors shortly after its release for "bourgeois nationalist" themes. Since then, it has grown to be considered one of the greatest Ukrainian films ever made, and it is rated 30th on the Dovzhenko Centre's list of 100 greatest Ukrainian films. Plot A young man, Ivan, is forcefully mobilised and sent to fight in the Caucasian War as a soldier of the Russian Empire by his landlord, leaving his wife behind. In the Caucasus, Ivas experiences the fierce local resistance to the Russian military, and returns home to launch an uprising against the Russian government. Cast - Ivan - Kateryna - Svichka Pomishchyk, the colonel Ivan Straukh - Zhukov, the merchant Hnat Yura - Sydorenko, Svichka's manager Natalia Uzhviy - Nastasia Markivna - General Ladanskyi I. Nekrutenko - Russian gendarmerie V. Yershov - Nicholas I of Russia Chuta Eristova-Zhgenti - Dadiani princess - Gavrilov, the revolutionary Shota Nodzadze - Georgian prisoner - Taras Shevchenko