Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba is a historical drama film, based on the novel Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol. The movie was filmed on different locations in Ukraine such as Zaporizhia, Khotyn and Kamianets-Podilsky as well as in Poland. The official release was rescheduled several times; at first for the spring of 2008 but was finally released on April 2, 2009, to coincide with Gogol's bicentennial. The author's edition of 1842, expanded and rewritten, and considered more pro-Russian, was used for the film (this also being the text that is familiar to most readers). The film DVD was released in the United States under the alternate title The Conqueror in 2010, and in the UK in 2011 as Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba. Cast Bohdan Stupka as Taras Bulba Igor Petrenko as Andriy Bulba Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Ostap Bulba Magdalena Mielcarz as Panna Elzhbeta Mikhail Boyarsky as Cossack Moisei Shilo Vladimir Ilyin as former ataman Yury Belyayev as Kirdyaga, ataman Ada Rogovtseva as Taras Bulba's wife Boris Khmelnitsky as Beard Daniel Olbrychski as Krasnevsky Sergey Bezrukov as Narrator Liubomiras Laucevičius as Polish Duke Pyotr Zaychenko as Metelitsa Les Serdyuk as Dmytro Aleksandr Dedyushko as Stepan Guska Ivan I. Krasko as Kasyan Bovdyug Sergey Dreyden as Yankel Controversies The film was partly financed by the Russian Ministry of Culture and has been criticized in Ukraine for being a part of political propaganda "resembling leaflets for Putin".