The film attempts to display an episode of the liberation movement in Ukraine - the uprising of Kolievs (serfs, artisans and fishermen) against the tyranny of the feudal lords and the Polish nobility, which ended with a brutal massacre performed by a Russian punitive expedition in 1768.
Semen
Ivan Gonta
The Rent Collector
The Innkeeper
Moshko
Maksym Zalizniak
Oksana
Pan Chiczewski
Oksana's mother
Ulyana, Semen's mother
Dionysiy
Knyaz Mladynovych
Pavlo
Cossack colonel