Taras Bulba (Russian: Тарас Бульба) is a historical drama film, based on a novel of the same title by Nikolai Gogol. The movie has been filmed on different locations in Ukraine such as Zaporizhia, Khotyn and Kamianets-Podilskyi as well as in Poland. The official release was rescheduled several times; at first for the spring of 2008 but was finally released on April 2, 2009, to coincide with Gogol’s bicentennial. Original manuscript first edition ...
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Taras Bulba (Russian: Тарас Бульба) is a historical drama film, based on a novel of the same title by Nikolai Gogol. The movie has been filmed on different locations in Ukraine such as Zaporizhia, Khotyn and Kamianets-Podilskyi as well as in Poland. The official release was rescheduled several times; at first for the spring of 2008 but was finally released on April 2, 2009, to coincide with Gogol’s bicentennial. Original manuscript first edition of 1835 was not used but the author's edition of 1842 (considered more pro-Russian), expanded and rewritten (into the text most readers know), was used for the film.
The film was partly financed by the Russian Ministry of Culture and has been criticized in Ukraine for being a part of political propaganda "resembling leaflets for Putin" . While the Polish characters in the movie speak Polish, the Ukrainian Cossacks are presented as speaking only Russian.
The director Vladimir Bortko (Bortko, himself of Ukrainian origin, is a member of the...
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