Dovbush 2023

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Language: English.
Title: Dovbush (Ukrainian: Довбуш).
Release Date: 08/24/2023 (UA).
Genre: History and Drama, historical adventure film.
Director: Oles Sanin.
Subject: Based on the life of Oleksa Dovbush, the most famous of opryshky leaders in the Carpathian Mountains.
Setting: Early eighteenth century, Carpathians.
Plot:
Foreign rule causes dark times for the Hutsuls of the Carpathians.
Two Dovbush brothers become opryshkos (mountain outlaws).
The brothers become enemies: one cares only about money, the other, Oleksa, fights for his people.
The Carpathians experience a wave of uprisings.
The aristocracy uses military might to try to kill Dovbush and destroy his legend.
Dovbush outwits them.
Lords devise a plan to attack his Achilles heel: his