Movie: "Taras Bulba"
Wednesday, June 27th, 3:00 p.m. to 5:07 p.m.
Sixteenth-century Ukrainian Cossacks fight against Polish invaders. One of Taras Bulba's sons fights by his side. Bulba sends the other son to Poland to study the enemy. The son encounters the Polish noblewoman he fell in love with in Kiev.
The film is based on the 1842 edition of the 1835 novella by Ukrainian novelist Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, 1809-1852. Gogol revised the work in 1842 at the request of the Russian government, making it favorable toward Russia rather than toward Ukraine. Gogol's original, "uncensored" version was not available to the public again until it was reprinted in 2005.
This Russian-language movie for adults, directed by Vladimir Bortko, was released in 2009. 127 minutes.
The full English-language text of the 1842 edition of Taras Bulba can be read for free on the University of Adelaide, Pennsylvania State University, and Gutenberg websites.
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