A young man, Ivan, is forcefully mobilised and sent to fight in the Caucasian War as a soldier of the Russian Empire by his landlord, leaving his wife behind. In the Caucasus, Ivas experiences the fierce local resistance to the Russian military, and returns home to launch an uprising against the Russian government.
as Ivan
as Kateryna
as Havrylov, the revolutionary
as Svichka Pomishchyk, the colonel
as Zhukov, the merchant
as Sydorenko, Svichka's manager
as Nastasia Markivna
as General Ladanskyi
as Nicholas I of Russia
as Georgian prisoner
as Taras Shevchenko
as Russian gendarmerie
as Dadiani princess
