Taras Bulba (2009 film)

Taras Bulba Russian is a historical drama film, based on the novel Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol. The movie was filmed on different locations in the Ukraine such as Zaporizhia, Khotyn and KamianetsPodilsky 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 Gogols bicentennial. The authors edition of 1842 considered more proRussian, expanded and rewritten into the text most readers know, was used for the film.

The Russians and Ukrainians are the same people and Ukraine is the southern part of the Rus. They cannot exist without us and we cannot without them. Now we are two states and also in the past there were such periods. The Ukrainian soil belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and to Poland. But the people who lived on both territories were always one people. Gogol understood that well and always spoke of it.This view is strongly opposed by nationalistic Ukrainians. In Russia there were fears that the movie would exacerbate historical disagreements with Ukraine. ........

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