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Cossacks in Exile (1939)

Cossacks in Exile (1939)

Drama Music History
Release Date: 1939, January 27
Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer
Countries: Canada, United States of America
Production: Ukrafilm Corp., Avramenko Film Productions, Inc., Avramenko Film Productions, Inc.
Cast: Alexis Tcherkasshy, Maria Sokil, F. Braznick, Dimitri Creona, Jean Harasymyk, Nicholas Harlash, V. Kikevitch, N. Mandryka, S. Mostowy, Anna Mushinsky, Helen Orlenco, Michael Shvetz

Overview:

In Ukraine, in 1775, the Zaporogian Cossacks learn that Moscow is sending soldiers to destroy their fort. The Ukrainian villagers appeal to Czarina Catherine, but she insists that they join the Russian army or risk annihilation. Instead, the Cossacks burn their fort and flee on the Danube River to Turkey, where they live in peace, but still yearn for their homeland.