The Black Council

Name: The Black Council
Director: Nikolay Zaseev-Rudenko
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2001-03-01
Cast: Aleksey Petrenko, Bohdan Stupka, Oleksandr Bondarenko, Serhii Romaniuk, Bohdan Beniuk

The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.