Movies: Mikhail Gershunenko

A detachment of Red Army soldiers gives shelter to a woman with a newborn. After the child is revealed to be a doll, the woman gets shot....

The film is set in the 17th century, when social antagonism is at its peak. The poverty of peasants and poor Cossacks is opposed to the lavish lifestyle of the Ukrainian and Polish noblemen, priests, and Cossack officers. Cossacks fight off Tatars’ a...