About the life of the Taras Bulba, a 16th-century Ukrainian Cossack leader who sends his son to study in Poland to learn the ways of the oppressor, only for the lad to fall in love with a Polish noblewoman. The fierce defense Ukraine's Cossack warriors put up when Polish armies intent on conquest swept across their lands is also highlighted.
Starring: Bogdan Stupka, Igor Petrenko, Wladimir Wdowichenkow