The ancient Greeks, it has been said, were too reasonable to ignore the intoxicating power of the unreasonable. They worshiped Dionysus, the god of excess and ecstasy, and they admired tragedy—an art ...

HE IS DAUNTLESS in battle, defiant in adversity and loyal to his comrades. With his last words, he foresees the coming of an invincible tsar. Taras Bulba, hero of Nikolai Gogol’s novella of the same ...

Literature and Salman Khan seem to be as different as chalk and cheese. Who could have thought that Salman would actually be a part of a film that brings Russian literature to Bollywood? The actor’s ...

“Taras Bulba,” the most grandiose Ukrainian film-project of recent years, is finally reaching the big screen. In fact the movie was finished awhile ago but the decision was made to release it in time ...

Vladimir Bortko is one of Russia's most famous film directors. His film "Taras Bulba" went on general release in April 2009. It was more of a political event than a cultural one. For it reflects the ...

The new epic movie starts filming next month. The movie version of Mykola Gogol’s epic novel “Taras Bulba” is finally set to start filming Feb. 1 in Zaporozhye on Hortytsya Island. The talk about the ...

What to Eat and Drink at This Year’s U.S. Open Steak sandwiches, shrimp-scampi ramen, and crispy fried chicken to pair with your Honey Deuce.

An explosion, a conspiracy, and an unlikely duo on a mission to expose the truth.

A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in the late 16 c. Ukraine. Taras has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not ...

For many minutes of the two hours it takes director J. Lee Thompson to put Gogol's tale of the legendary Cossack hero on the screen, the panorama of fighting men and horses sweeping across the wide ...