With Fire and Sword
Ogniem i mieczem
Poland
1999
204 Min
Color
2.35:1
Polish, Ukrainian, Turkish
Synopsis
Fire and Sword is the English title of the Polish film Ogniem i Mieczem, a historical drama directed by Jerzy Hoffman, released in 1999. The film is based on a novel of the same name, the first part in The Trilogy of Henryk Sienkiewicz. At the time of its filming it was the most expensive Polish film ever made.
The story is set in the Ukrainian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 17th century during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. A Polish knight Skrzetuski and a Cossack otaman Bohun fall in love with the same woman, Helena. Their rivalry unfolds against the backdrop of a Cossack uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky aimed at reclaiming the control of the land from the hands of the Polish nobles. Historic events form a framework for an action- and character-driven plot, and fictional characters mingle with historic ones. The movie, conversely to the book, does not finish with the great face-off in the form of the Battle of Beresteczko. —Wikipedia
Director
Jerzy Hoffman
Born: 1932, Krakow. Director and screenwriter. Studied film directing at the State Film Institute in Moscow, received the diploma in 1955. Between 1954 and 1965 he worked in a team with Edward Skorzewski. They co-directed 27 documentaries and 3 features: The Gangsters and the Philanthropists,1962 (Gangsterzy i filantropi), The Law and the Fist, 1964 (Prawo i piesc) and Three Steps on the Earth, 1965 (Trzy kroki po ziemi). 1966 was the year of Jerzy Hoffman’s first independent project. After the successful adaptation of the last part of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy, Pan Wolodyjowski (1968), he made its prequel, The Deluge, which was nominated for the 1974 Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture. In the late 1990s Jerzy Hoffman made his greatest dream come true: he filmed With Fire and Sword (1999), thus making the Sienkiewicz Trilogy complete. The movie proved to be the biggest box office success in the last 20 years of the Polish film history. —rochester.edu
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