The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.
as Semen
as Ivan Gonta
as The Rent Collector
as The Innkeeper
as Moshko
as Maksym Zalizniak
as Oksana
as Pan Chiczewski
as Oksana's mother
as Ulyana, Semen's mother
as Dionysiy
as Knyaz Mladynovych
as Pavlo
as Cossack colonel