Desc: Molytva za hetmana Mazepu: Directed by Yuri Ilyenko. With Bogdan Stupka, Lyudmila Efimenko, Nikita Dzhigurda, Vyacheslav Dovzhenko. A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa unfolds during an interesting era in the history of Eastern Europe when Russia, under Peter the Great, and Sweden, under King Charles XII, struggled for power; Ukraine was the pawn in the middle.