The narrative follows the exploits of an aging Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons. The younger, Andriy, falls in love with a Polish noblewoman and, after joining the garrison of a Polish town besieged by the Cossacks, is caught and shot by his father. Taras himself is eventually captured by the Poles and burned alive on a commanding height while, undaunted, he urges the retreating Cossacks to escape across.

 筆者曾經介紹過TARAS BULBA 1962.這樣一來俄羅斯與烏克蘭的民族愛恨情仇,糾結至今年尚未有完結篇,如今2017年,好像是烏克蘭扔然要與俄羅斯開戰,繼續遊戲,這2部大片很可惜台灣地區都無法上映,你們台灣人與大陸人的愛恨情仇的情節卻不知道要拖延至何時? 如果說戰爭是最後唯一解決的方式那麼就等到最後一刻才動手你們台灣人準備好了嗎 ?

Taras Bulba (2009 film)

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

Taras Bulba (Russian: ) is a historical drama film, based on the novel Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol. The movie was filmed on different locations in the Ukraine such as Zaporizhia, Khotyn and Kamianets-Podilsky as well as in Poland. The official release was rescheduled several times; at first for the spring of 2008 but was finally released on April 2, 2009, to coincide with Gogol’s bicentennial. The authors edition of 1842 (considered more pro-Russian), expanded and rewritten (into the text most readers know), was used for the film.

The Russians and Ukrainians are the same people and Ukraine is the southern part of the Rus. They cannot exist without us and we cannot without them. Now we are two states and also in the past there were such periods. The Ukrainian soil belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and to Poland. But the people who lived on both territories were always one people. Gogol understood that well and always spoke of it.

This view is strongly opposed by nationalistic Ukrainians. In Russia there were fears that the movie would exacerbate historical disagreements with Ukraine.