Familiar with Henryk Sienkiewicz? Ever watched Quo Vadis? No? Ever heard about a mess in Central/Eastern Europe about Russia, Ukraine and Crimea? Interested? Then Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy is worth a look, even if, or because, it’s about this area in 17th century and not nowadays. Ogniem i mieczem, “With Fire and Sword”, the most recent movie, is the adaptation of the first book. It depicts Khmelnytsky Uprising: a cossacks‘s rebellion against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rule that, at some point led to the idea of Ukraine as autonomous state, which won’t really happen durably until 1917. The movie is kind of fast-paced. … Continue reading Minns ni än, för länge sen… (Potop, 1974; Ogniem i mieczem, 1999; Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, 2011)