For many minutes of the two hours it takes director J. Lee Thompson to put Gogol's tale of the legendary Cossack hero on the screen, the panorama of fighting men and horses sweeping across the wide ...

HE IS DAUNTLESS in battle, defiant in adversity and loyal to his comrades. With his last words, he foresees the coming of an invincible tsar. Taras Bulba, hero of Nikolai Gogol’s novella of the same ...

A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in the late 16 c. Ukraine. Taras has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not ...

One of a number of recordings of sound effects made for the radio adaptation of ‘Taras Bulba’. Sound of fire effect. Radio adaptation of ‘Taras Bulba’, a novella by Nikolai Gogol. Adapted by Irish ...

Vladimir Bortko is one of Russia's most famous film directors. His film "Taras Bulba" went on general release in April 2009. It was more of a political event than a cultural one. For it reflects the ...

“Taras Bulba,” the most grandiose Ukrainian film-project of recent years, is finally reaching the big screen. In fact the movie was finished awhile ago but the decision was made to release it in time ...

‘Taras Bulbas’ is a literary epic following an older Cossack named Taras Bulba who takes his sons to war with him against the Poles who rule all of Ukraine. It is a piece of romantic nationalism, ...

A Cossack chief who has sworn to be the eternal enemy of the Poles finds that his own son has fallen for a Polish beauty. Show more Set in 18th-century Ukraine, the dramatic tale of a Cossack chief ...