Ukraine | 2016 | 06:30

In 1669 Hetman Petro Doroshenko signed the alliance treaty with the Turks to seize the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In gratitude to the Turks Hetman’s people chased entire villages of their own tribesmen and sold them into slavery. By hearing this otaman Sirko, a leader of the Zaporozhian Sich, ordered to find and punish the traitors of his people. Three hundred slavers were caught by the Cossacks of Sirko. The traitors were stripped off their neck crosses, chopped into pieces and thrown into the river not to let the Ukrainian ground to embrace them. Alive was retained only one Cossack, and he was doomed to redemption of the betrayal. As the legend says the poem “Ravine bу ravine” from “Kobzar” collection by Taras Shevchenko was dedicated to this historic event. This film is an allusion to the event of that time.