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FILM REVIEW: "A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa" revisited
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Hawryluk, Alexandra
Ukrainian Weekly, The
01-09-2005
Alexandra Hawryluk writes regularly for Radio Canada International in
Montreal.
The really interesting questions are those that ask us to re-examine issues
that are so deeply imbedded in a given culture that they are taken for
granted. Yuri Ilyenko in his film "A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa" - which was
screened for North American audiences in 2004 - attempts to lift the veil
of historical myth draped over the figure of Ivan Mazepa by asking: Who is
Hetman Mazepa?
It's a good question considering that the two most widely held perceptions
of Ivan ...
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