With Fire and Sword (1999)
(Ogniem i mieczem)
Country: POL
Technical: col/scope 182m
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Michal Zebrowski, Aleksandr Domogarow
Synopsis:
In 17th century Poland the Ukrainian Cossacks, angry at not sharing in their privileges, revolt against the nobility and ally themselves with the Tartars of the Crimea. Against this background a Pole and a Cossack hothead fight over the beautiful Helena.
Review:
Old-fashioned, naïvely rumbustious epic, with the kind of broadly comic episodes Hollywood reserved for its Pirate films and which make it seem like an East European Asterix the Gaul at times. At others it is quite gruesome in its detail; these were cruel times, we are left in little doubt, but it is the irrepressible lust for life of the Poles, and their patriotism, which shine through. Flabbily structured and uneven in tone, this is no Gone with the Wind but attains some scenes of spectacle and will be of interest to the historically minded.
(Ogniem i mieczem)
Country: POL
Technical: col/scope 182m
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Michal Zebrowski, Aleksandr Domogarow
Synopsis:
In 17th century Poland the Ukrainian Cossacks, angry at not sharing in their privileges, revolt against the nobility and ally themselves with the Tartars of the Crimea. Against this background a Pole and a Cossack hothead fight over the beautiful Helena.
Review:
Old-fashioned, naïvely rumbustious epic, with the kind of broadly comic episodes Hollywood reserved for its Pirate films and which make it seem like an East European Asterix the Gaul at times. At others it is quite gruesome in its detail; these were cruel times, we are left in little doubt, but it is the irrepressible lust for life of the Poles, and their patriotism, which shine through. Flabbily structured and uneven in tone, this is no Gone with the Wind but attains some scenes of spectacle and will be of interest to the historically minded.
(Ogniem i mieczem)
Country: POL
Technical: col/scope 182m
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Michal Zebrowski, Aleksandr Domogarow
Synopsis:
In 17th century Poland the Ukrainian Cossacks, angry at not sharing in their privileges, revolt against the nobility and ally themselves with the Tartars of the Crimea. Against this background a Pole and a Cossack hothead fight over the beautiful Helena.
Review:
Old-fashioned, naïvely rumbustious epic, with the kind of broadly comic episodes Hollywood reserved for its Pirate films and which make it seem like an East European Asterix the Gaul at times. At others it is quite gruesome in its detail; these were cruel times, we are left in little doubt, but it is the irrepressible lust for life of the Poles, and their patriotism, which shine through. Flabbily structured and uneven in tone, this is no Gone with the Wind but attains some scenes of spectacle and will be of interest to the historically minded.