The Black Council gives a vivid picture of the different levels of society in seventeenth-century Ukraine. The main theme is the need for people to be motivated by high ideals as they engage in the struggle of truth with injustice.

• Dovzhenko Film Studios
• Aleksey Petrenko
• Bohdan Stupka
• Oleksandr Bondarenko
• Serhii Romaniuk
• Bohdan Beniuk
• Ruslana Pysanka
• Radmila Shegoleva
• Ksenia Kovaliova