N. V. Gogol: Taras Bulba

Gogol's heroic epic in celebration of the high time of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, who are brave, generous, lively and devoted to their people. This period is the 16th-17th century, when the descendants of the refugees fight against the Tatar invasions and wage a liberation struggle against the Polish nobility. Persons and cast: Taras Bulba, Old Cossack (Petr Haničinec), Andrei and Ostap, his sons (Petr Stepanek and Miroslav Moravec), their mother (Jana Dítětová), bandurist (Josef Patočka), Panočka (Jana Preissová), Jewish peddler Jankel (Josef Kemr), basket Kirďaha (František Hanus), basket Neruda (Karel Houska), Cossack messenger (Ladislav Trojan), a Laotian scout (Pavel Soukup), French engineer (Boris Rösner), Silo (Miloš Hlavica), lach (Karel Heřmánek), the Laotian rich man (Jiří Holý). Also performing are Blanka Blahníková, Miriam Kantorkova, Alena Procházková, Věra Kubánková, Sylva Sequenc, Zdenek Ornest, Vladimír Čech, Jan Faltynek, Ladislav Nikodém, Pavel Pipal, Miloš Hlavica, David Vejražka and others. Directed by: Alena Adamcová.