Sergey Kucherenko

Ukraine, the village of Semyhory. Two sons get married in the Kaidash family - Karp and Lavrin. But there is no peace in their home. Constant quarrels in the family between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law force the sons to share their father's property. Native people become enemies when it comes to the distribution of property.

The Hitlerian army has merely encroached upon the territory of Ukraine, and the majority of the local people have been already ready to cave in to a new regime. The Ukrainian policemen have killed the boy. It is clear that there is no hope to expect the justice from the invaders, that’s why the killed boy’s mother declares the war on the hangsman.

At the beginning of the XVII century, events take place preceding the liberation struggle led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky. A young boy Pavlo Pokhylenko leaves his native Kaniv to join the Zaporizhian Sich (camp and cossack army) to fight for freedom and the Orthodox faith.

The hero of the film, police captain Anatoly Lensky, is an adventurer who is characterized by nobility, a sense of honor and intrigue. Together with other characters goes to the "Bay of death" in search of hidden treasures there. All heroes movie must to meet in one place. There they will converge, but not all come back…

Based on the play by Volodymyr Vynnychenko. A married couple, Korney (Polar Bear), an artist, and his wife, Rita (Black Panther), live in Paris. Korniy's job is to paint for a salon. Their son Lesik is seriously ill. Rita persuades her husband to sell one of his paintings in order to use the money to treat her son. Kornii strongly disagrees. He forces his wife and sick son to pose for a new painting...

About the tragedy of the people of Western Ukraine Caught between Stalin and Hitler's totalitarian regimes. The film is dedicated to the soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.