Original title: Propala hramota
Copyright: the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1972.
Format: feature narrative
Carrier: DVD
Color: color
Length: 74 min.
Original language: Ukrainian
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Borys Ivchenko
Script writer: Ivan Drach
Director of photography: Vitalii Zymovets
Production designers: Mykhailo Rakovsky and Alla Shesterenko
Sound editor: Ryva Bisnovata
Folk music and song selection by Ivan Mykolaichuk
 
Produced by the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Film cast 
Ivan Mykolaichuk as Cossack Vasyl, Lidia Vakula as his wife, Fedir Stryhun as Cossack Andrii, Zemfira Tsakhilova as Odarka, Mykhailo Holubovych as the evil man, Volodymyr Hlukhy as the strange man, Vasyl Symchych as Vasyl's father, Anatolii Barchuk as Ivan, Volodymyr Shakalo as Petro,  Valentyna Ivashova as tsarina, Dmytro Kapka as the deacon,  Halyna Dolhozviaha as the godmother.

Synopsis
Based on the eponymous story by Mykola Hohol (Nikolai Gogol) about a trip to the Russian tsar's court undertaken by Cossack Vasyl from the Ukrainian village of Dykanka and his-comrade-in-arms Zaporozhian Cossack Andrii to deliver a petition. On the way they get into all kinds of scraps - get into a fight with the enemy, narrowly escape a trap set by the Devil himself, and even go down to hell and see a whole bunch of scary stuff. This folk comedy is a celebration of the invincible spirit of the people, its sense of honor, and dignity in the face of adversity. Portraying the pompous, oppressive, and inhumane ways of Russian Empire it ridicules its Soviet and post-Soviet successors.

This film has been restored and digitally re-mastered as part of the 8-disk DVD gift set "Ukrainian Film Classics. Ivan Mykolaichuk," issued by the National Oleksander Dovzhenko Center in 2010.